Labor in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
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Labor in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

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  2. English
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Labor in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

About this book

Originally presented at a Conference on Labor in Nonprofit Industry and Government held at Princeton University, these studies are the first to provide an economic discussion of the public sector labor market.

Melvin Reder examines the effect of the absence of the profit motive on employment and wage determination in the public sector. Orley Ashenfelter and Ronald Ehrenberg estimate the elasticities of demand for various types of labor employed by state and local governments. Theoretical ideas about behavior in nonprofit industries are employed by Richard Freeman to study the higher education industry.

John Burton and Charles Krider try to predict the incidence of strikes in the public sector, while Donald Frey presents a model of the behavior of school boards in hiring faculty. The magnitude of the extra wage received by unionized public employees is compared by Daniel Hamermesh to that of private unionized workers in the same occupation.

Originally published in 1975.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Melvin W. Reder The Theory of Employment and Wages in the Public Sector
  5. Alvin K. Klevorick Comments
  6. Orley C. Ashenfelter and Ronald G. Ehrenberg The Demand for Labor in the Public Sector
  7. Burton A. Weisbrod Comments
  8. Richard B. Freeman Demand for Labor in a Nonprofit Market: University Faculty
  9. George E. Johnson Comments
  10. John F. Burton, Jr. and Charles E. Krider The Incidence of Strikes in Public Employment
  11. Jack Stieber Comments
  12. Donald E. Frey Wage Determination in Public Schools and the Effects of Unionization
  13. Hirschel Kasper Comments
  14. Daniel S. Hamermesh The Effect of Government Ownership on Union Wages
  15. Paul F. Gerhart Comments
  16. Combined References