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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...
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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status
Gyourko, Joseph - 1986
Studies of public/private sector wage differentials typically assume that the govenment and union status of a worker are exogenous variables. Recently, some studies have relaxed this assumption slightly by allowing the union status to be endogenous. In this paper, we consider a more general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477154
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Transitions From Career Employment Among Public- and Private-Sector Workers
Quinn, Joseph F. - 2018
Do the retirement patterns of public-sector workers differ from those in the private sector? Most private-sector workers today face a do-it-yourself retirement income landscape characterized by an exposure to market forces through defined-contribution pension plans and private saving, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480656
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Changes in the Distribution of Wages, 1940-1950 : The Public vs. the Private Sector
Margo, Robert A. - 1995
Between 1940 and 1950 wage differentials within and between labor market groups narrowed significantly - the so-called 'Great Compression'. This paper disaggregates the Great Compression into its public and private components. Wage compression in the public sector, along with a decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473478
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Do Private Schools Provide Competition for Public Schools?
Hoxby, Caroline Minter - 1994
Arguments in favor of school choice depend on the idea that competition between schools improves the quality of education. However, we have almost no empirical evidence on whether competition actually affects school quality. In this study, I examine the effects of inter-school competition on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473921
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Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors
Katz, Lawrence F. - 1991
The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite a large expansion in the college/high school wage differential during the 1980s in the private sector, the public sector college wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475349
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Comparisons Between Public and Private Sector Union Wage Differentials : Does the Legal Environment Matter?
Tracy, Joseph - 1988
A stylized fact in the growing literature on public sector labor markets is that estimates of public sector union wage premia are significantly lower than estimates of private sector union wage premia. In this paper I investigate the hypothesis that this difference may in part be due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476305
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Contraction and Expansion : The Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in tht U.S
Freeman, Richard B. - 1987
This paper contrasts the differing experience of public sector unionism, which has expanded in the United States, and private sector unionism, which has contracted, in the past several decades. It uses the experience of other countries, particularly Canada, to rule out some explanations of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476669
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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China
Gao, Haoyu - 2019
Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry … corporate loans from entrant banks. Consequently, in deregulated cities, private firms with bank credit access increase asset … following deregulation. Deregulation also amplifies bank credit from productive private firms to inefficient SOEs due mainly to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479745
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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Epple, Dennis - 2000
Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...
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