Local Public Sector Wages, the Local Fiscal Environment, andTheir Effects on Land Values

在过去的三十年里，公众发生了巨大的变化。 部门劳动力市场。 自20世纪50年代以来，当地公共部门 规模迅速扩大，工会化程度越来越高。 这种转变促使人们对当地的 公共劳动力市场强调工会的影响 公共部门的就业、工资和生产率。 一 这些研究的缺点是， 充分认识到公共部门的补偿是确定的， 在更广泛的地方预算过程中。 作为 结果，当地经济条件的充分影响， 特别是财政环境，对公共工资的影响还没有得到 抓了 潜在的重要城市特征有助于 影响当地公共工资的水平和模式， 从以前的工资/收入规格中删除。 的 该项目的贡献来自重新估计当地 公共工资方程的各种数据和测试， 被忽视的地方财政变量的重要性。 这些 变量包括社区“支付能力”的代理 公务员工资溢价及“议价”措施 当地工人的“权力”，即，他们挪用 当地租金。 此外，该项目还调查了 其中衡量的地方公共工资差异反映在 降低社区的土地价格。

The last thirty years have witnessed dramatic changes in public sector labor markets. Since the 1950's, the local public sector has grown rapidly in size and become increasingly unionized. This transformation has prompted considerable research on local public labor markets emphasizing the impact that unions have had on employment, wages, and productivity in the public sector. A shortcoming of many of these studies is their failure to adequately recognize that public sector compensation is set within a broader context of a local budgetary process. As a result, the full influence of local economic conditions, the fiscal environment in particular, on public wages has not been captured. Potentially important city-specific traits helping influence the level and pattern of local public wages have been omitted from previous wage/earnings specifications. The contribution of this project comes from reestimating local public wage equations on a variety of data and from testing for the importance of the neglected local fiscal variables. These variables include proxies for the community's "ability to pay" wage premia to public workers and measures of the "bargaining power" of the local workers, i.e., their ability to appropriate local rents. In addition, the project investigates the degree to which measured local public wage differentials are reflected in lower land prices in the communities.