This paper explores a little‐understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography.
Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very …

I develop a New Keynesian model in which a type of government multiplier doubles when
unemployment rises from 5 percent to 8 percent. This multiplier indicates the additional …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two
facts. The first is that public employment is used as a subsidy from the North to the less …

Measuring individual welfare using data on reported subjective well-being has made great
progress. It offers a new way of confronting public choice hypotheses with field data, eg, with …

I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions to
determine the optimal public sector wage policy. Public sector wages are crucial in …

Are state and local government workers overcompensated? In this paper, we step back from
the highly charged rhetoric and address this question with the two primary data sources for …

This paper analyzes the gender-based wage gaps across the wage distribution in the
private and public sectors in Italy for the years 2005–2010. We use quantile regression …

The practical viability of performance-based pay programs for teachers depends critically on
the extent of support the idea will receive from teachers. We present evidence on teacher …

While the idea of teacher performance-pay is increasingly making its way into policy, the
evidence on the effectiveness of such programs is both limited and mixed. The central …

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the relationship between public sector
motivation and development. In the model the public sector produces a public good and …