THE EFFECT OF UNIONS ON THE COMPENSATION OF SECRETARIES IN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

DAVID B. BALKIN

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DOI: 10.2190/9YYP-7T3A-KVW9-4RNR

Abstract

Using a wage model with ordinary least squares regression, the effects of unions on the 1978 monthly salaries of secretaries in municipal government were analyzed for a group of forty cities and suburbs in a large urban labor market in the midwest. The union variable reached statistical significance in both regression equations. Unionized secretaries received a 6.5 percent salary advantage when compared to the salaries of nonunion secretaries. Other significant variables that influenced municipal wages were city population and labor mobility.

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