The effect of collective bargaining on the economic benefits of police employees has been the interest of researchers since the 1960s. This study examines the effect of collective bargaining on supplemental pay benefits for police officers. Using data from the Law Enforcement Management Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey of large police agencies as well as data derived from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and US Census Bureau, we investigate the relationship between departments engaging in collective bargaining with officers and whether or not the department offers hazardous duty pay, shift differential pay, education incentive pay, or merit pay to its officers. Using two‐way fixed effects logistic regression analysis on four waves of panel data, we find that collective bargaining did increase the likelihood of the supplemental pay benefits during the 1990s.
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