TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Schwarz,Joshua L.
TI  - Public Sector Labor Markets
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1179
PY  - 1987
Y2  - April 1987
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1179
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1179.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Joshua L. Schwarz
AB  - This paper provides a critical survey of the literature dealing with public sector labor markets. It discusses the research by economists on wage determination in the state and local sector (including the effects of unions), on the estimation of compensating wage differentials for pecuniary and nonpecuniary job characteristics, on the effects of unions on productivity, on the estimation of public/private pay differentials, and on gender and race discrimination in the public sector. Numerous suggestions for future research are offered.
ER  -