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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...

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Do Private Schools Provide Competition for Public Schools?

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

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...

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Contraction and Expansion : the Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in Tht U.S

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

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...

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Comparisons between Public and Private Sector Union Wage Differentials : Does the Legal Environment Matter?

Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

that this difference may in part be due to the differing legal environments in which public and private sector unions …

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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status

Gyourko, Joseph; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

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...

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Changes in the Distribution of Wages, 1940-1950 : The Public vs. The Private Sector

Margo, Robert A.; Finegan, Aldrich - 2021

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...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors

Katz, Lawrence F.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2022

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...

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Monopsony Power in the Market for Nurses

Sullivan, Daniel G. - 2007

Estimates are presented of the inverse elasticity of supply of nursing services to the individual hospital, a quantity which is a natural measure of employer market power. The estimates corresponding to employment changes taking place over one year are quite high (in the neighborhood of 0.79)...

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Monopsony and Employer Mis-Optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers

Dube, Arindrajit - 2018

considerable degree of monopsony. We replicate the absence of round number discontinuities in firm labor supply in matched worker … the bunching in the data. The extent of monopsony power implied by our estimated labor supply elasticities, which are in … labor without being driven out of the market in the presence of monopsony power …

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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share

Brooks, Wyatt - 2019

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We …

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