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These data include approximately 200 Illinois and 300 Iowa districts for each school year from 1978-79 to 1980-81.","The results generally supported the dependence bargaining theory. In particular, strike use appeared to modestly increase teacher salary changes in Illinois. Strike activity in earlier years increased the favorableness of collective bargaining agreements to teachers by about 20 percent. The data did not indicate that strike use affected wage and nonwage bargaining outcome levels, or changes in nonwage outcomes. Analyses of the Iowa data revealed no evidence that teachers' wage and nonwage bargaining outcome levels and changes are affected by the use of interest arbitration.","The national analyses suggested that the availability of either the right to strike or compulsory arbitration similarly increased public school teacher pay by approximately nine percent. 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