The Availability of Interest Arbitration and Police Employment Outcomes

Whereas previous research on compulsory interest arbitration has assumed its availability to be exogenously determined, this analysis views the availability of arbitration as a result of tactical action. A power-dependence based framework is used to test three propositions regarding interest arbitration: (1) passage of an arbitration law is partially determined by power relationships between unions and cities in a state; (2) once factors influencing arbitration's implementation are controlled for, arbitration's availability should positively affect employment outcomes; and (3) comparability to other municipalities' pay plays a larger role in determining what a city pays its employees where arbitration is available than where it is not.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Labor and Industrial Relations

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Schwochau, Susan Gertrude

• Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8701612

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71547