This chapter reviews recent developments in research on public sector labor markets. Public
sector labor markets have two important characteristics which account for the interest in their …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

Since Ehrenberg and Schwarz (1986) there has been a plethora of articles investigating the
relationship between public and private sector wages. This article examines part of this post …

While there is evidence of a substantial and rising labor market premium associated with
college attendance, little is known about how this premium varies across institutions of …

This paper describes an experiment focused on measuring and explaining differences in
students learning between online and face-to-face modes of instruction in college level …

内容提要: 本文通过1989) 1997 年教育回报率在不同所有制间的差异及其变化来考察中国的
劳动力市场. 利用CHNS 数据分别估计国有企业, 大型集体企业, 小型集体企业以及私营企业的 …

内容提要: 基于CHNS 数据, 本文用Heckman 样本选择模型对我国公共部门和非公共部门的
工资差异进行了估计. 研究发现在1989 年到1997 年样本中, 公共部门的工资比非公共部门低 …

This paper uses data from the US Decennial Census and the Current Population Surveys to
document the differential shifts that occurred in the wage structures of the public and …

This paper is concerned with the English-language requirements of occupations in the USA,
as measured by the O* NET database. These scores are linked to employed native and …

Governments in less developed countries face severe budgetary constraints. Given that
public sector employment is a large part of modern sector employment, the government …