And the Bargaining Power of Teachers' Unions
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This paper develops a public choice model of the bargaining power of teachers' unions. The model predicts that the power of the unions rises with the number of eligible voters in a district. As a bargaining outcome reflecting this power, we use the experience premium for teachers. The premium is defined as the difference in salary between experienced and inexperienced teachers. For a sample of 771 California school districts in 1999-2000, a district's premium is positively related to the number of voters, a finding consistent with the model's prediction.
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