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  • Howard L. Frant and Herman B. Leonard, Public Sector Payrolls (University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 9, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/public-sector-payrolls/promise-them-anything-incentive-structures-local-public-pension-plans.

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