A Reexamination of Public-Sector Wage Differentials in the United States: Evidence from the NLSY with Geocode

While many researchers have sought to estimate federal‐private wage differentials in the United States, most of them ignore the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and selectivity among sectors. This article seeks to fill the gap in previous literature by using a more appropriate data set and several...

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Published in:Industrial relations (Berkeley) 2004-04, Vol.43 (2), p.448-472
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