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MIT Sloan School of Management 50 Memorial Drive, E52-531 Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
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Education(2012) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Ph.D. in Management, Institute for Work & Employment Research
2007 Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations (Honors), GPA 3.91 Thesis Title: “A Game Theoretic Approach to Social Dialogue”
2006 Oxford University, Pembroke College Junior Year Abroad in Economics and Management |
Research“Firm-Sponsored General Education and Mobility Frictions: Evidence from Hospital Sponsorship of Nursing Schools and Faculty” (under revision)Alan Benson
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This paper examines hospitals’ direct financial sponsorship of nursing schools and faculty. Interviews and healthcare literature inform a model whereby firms are induced to sponsor education to increase the population of trained workers probabilistically subject to monopsony rent. Consistent with the model, I find that hospitals located in metropolitan areas where employment is highly concentrated are more likely to sponsor nursing schools and faculty. This illustrates how mobility frictions may induce firms to sponsor general education. It also provides an explanation for the perceived shortage of nurses, which manifests in hospital nurse vacancy rates that perennially exceed unemployment rates. *Replication tools include verbatim survey questions and command lines used for statistical analysis. However, I cannot upload the data, which includes proprietary hospital data and confidential survey responses. E-mail me for more information.
“The Long-Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State’s Taylor Law” (under revision)Thomas Kochan, David Lipsky, Mary Newhart, and Alan Benson
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The authors use experiences with interest arbitration for police and firefighters under New York State’s Taylor Law from 1974 to 2007 to examine the central debates about the effects of this form of arbitration on collective bargaining. They draw on old and new data to compare experience with interest arbitration in the first three years after it was adopted with experiences from 1995 to 2007. They find that no strikes have occurred under arbitration, rates of dependence on arbitration declined considerably, the effectiveness of mediation prior to and during arbitration remained high, the tripartite arbitration structure continued to foster discussion of options for resolution among members of the arbitration panels, and wage increases awarded under arbitration matched those negotiated voluntarily by the parties. Econometric estimates of the effects of interest arbitration on wage changes in a national sample suggest wage increases between 1990 and 2000 in states with arbitration did not differ significantly from those in states with non-binding mediation and factfinding or states without a collective bargaining statute. The length of time required to complete the arbitration process increased substantially and several critical employment relations issues facing the parties have not been addressed within the arbitration system. The authors suggest these findings should be considered by both critics and supporters of proposals to include a role for interest arbitration in national labor policy.
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