The Impact of Unionism on Municipal Expenditures and Revenues

This study tests the hypothesis that municipal unions, through the use of political power and multilateral bargaining power, are able to increase the demand for municipal services. An analysis of data on approximately 700 cities from the 1980 Survey of Governments and Census of Population shows, in both cross-section and fixed effects estimates, that collective bargaining increased expenditures in departments covered by a contract. In contrast, collective bargaining apparently did not affect cities' total expenditures, total revenues, or property taxes

Bargaining power · Business · Census · Collective bargaining · Economics · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Public economics · Revenue · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Finance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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