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Was Wisconsin's Act 10 Welfare Improving?

Jorgensen, Rebecca A
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8283-5922
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468884341

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2016, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
In 2011, Wisconsin's Act 10 eliminated the majority of collective bargaining rights for most public sector employees (including public school teachers). Lawmakers claimed that this would enable districts to decrease costs and permit the cutting of both property taxes and state funding for schools. I look at the policy's effect on teacher compensation and find that the law decreased total compensation, salary, retirement, and health insurance expenditures across the state; however, I find that the number of full-time teachers per capita increases after Act 10 once I control for simultaneous cuts in public school funding. These results indicate that pre-Act 10 the teacher labor market was inefficient and that Act 10 was welfare increasing.
Charles Moul (Advisor)
Deborah Fletcher (Committee Member)
William Even (Committee Member)
54 p.
Economics
Educational Finance; Collective Bargaining; Public Policy; Act 10

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  • Jorgensen, R. A. (2016). Was Wisconsin's Act 10 Welfare Improving? [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468884341

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jorgensen, Rebecca. Was Wisconsin's Act 10 Welfare Improving? 2016. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468884341.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jorgensen, Rebecca. "Was Wisconsin's Act 10 Welfare Improving?" Master's thesis, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468884341

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