| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16797 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16797 |
| Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers | |
| Jan K. Brueckner; David Neumark | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-02-18 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet, leaving jurisdictions where public-sector workers extract high rents. However, although migration of taxpayers may limit rent-seeking, public-sector workers may be able to extract higher rents in regions where high amenities mute the migration response. We develop a theoretical model that predicts such a link between public-sector wage differentials and local amenities, and we test the model's predictions by analyzing variation in these wage differentials and amenities across states. We find that public-sector wage differentials are, in fact, larger in the presence of high amenities, with the effect stronger for unionized public-sector workers who are likely better able to exercise political power in extracting rents. The implication is that the mobility of taxpayers is insufficient to prevent rent-seeking behavior of public-sector workers from leading to higher public-sector pay. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Market Structures ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16797 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574472 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jan K. Brueckner,David Neumark. Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers. 2011. |
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