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School Finance Reform : Assessing General Equilibrium Effects
Epple, Dennis N. - 2007
In 1994 the state of Michigan implemented one of the most comprehensive school finance reforms undertaken to date in … any of the states. Understanding the effects of the reform is thus of value in informing other potential reform … initiatives. In addition, the reform and associated changes in the economic environment provide an opportunity to assess whether a …
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve … sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders …
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Public sector payrolls
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 1987
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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
in the largest US customs-collection districts. The reform improved targeted employees' professional background and … reform was to induce hiring in exempted positions, provoking distortions in districts' personnel structure. Our results …
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Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Teso, Edoardo; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We combine personnel records of the United States federal bureaucracy from 1997-2019 with administrative voter registration data to study how ideological alignment between politicians and bureaucrats affects the personnel policies and performance of public organizations. We present four results....
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Licence to Dine : 007 and the Real Exchange Rate
Craig, Lee A.; Treme, Julianne; Weiss, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We constructed a time series of menu prices for the identifiable restaurants at which James Bond dined in France and the UK that yields one of the few international price series representing luxury services. This series enabled us to calculate a real exchange rate based on prices pertinent to...
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Public Sector Union Growth and Bargaining Laws : A Proportional Hazards Approach with Time-Varying Treatments
Ichniowski, Casey - 1986
This study uses a Cox proportional hazards model to estimate ther elationship between state-level collective bargaining policies and union growth in the public sector. The proportional hazards analysisis performed with data on approximately eight hundred municipal police departments. The timing...
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Public Sector Recognition Strikes : Illegal and Ill-Fated
Ichniowski, Casey - 1986
This study investigates the relationship between strike activity by nonunion public employees and unionization. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this study finds that recognition strikes are concentrated...
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Municipal Employment, Municipal Unions, and Demand for Municipal Services
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1985
Municipal unions may often use their own votes and those of sympathetic fellow citizens to promote increases in demand for municipal services. If successful, this strategy can increase member employment levels without sacrificing compensation. Municipal employee unionization significantly...
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Unionism Comes to the Public Sector
Freeman, Richard B. - 1984
This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector labor relations literature and finds that: (i) public...
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