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

Three dimensions for analyzing public sector pay administration are used to examine central government pay administration in Sweden and the United States of America. On the first dimension, market posture, both countries are found to fall short of their espoused policy, comparability. Greater consistency is found on the second dimension, social orientation, where both countries have pursued the goal of social equality. The equilization of salary levels across society is far greater in Sweden in keeping with the socialist objectives of wage solidarity. The third dimension, reward structure, shows the greatest distance between the two countries with the struggle to implement performance-contingent pay underway in the U.S. while Swedes continue to rely on longevity for pay increases.

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Pension Enhancements and the Retention of Public Employees

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/0019793916650452 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 519-551 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Cory Koedel ◽

P. Brett Xiang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Sector ◽

Employee Retention ◽

Cost Effective ◽

The United States ◽

Pension Plans ◽

Public Employees ◽

Public School Teachers ◽

School Teachers ◽

Public Pension Plans

The authors use data from workers in the largest public-sector occupation in the United States—teaching—to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention. Specifically, they study a 1999 enhancement to the benefit formula for public school teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, that resulted in an immediate and dramatic increase in their incentives to remain in covered employment. To identify the effect of the enhancement on teacher retention, the analysis leverages the fact that the strength of the incentive increase varied across the workforce depending on how far teachers were from retirement eligibility when it was enacted. The results indicate that the St. Louis enhancement—which was structurally similar to enhancements that were enacted in other public pension plans across the United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s—was not a cost-effective way to increase employee retention.

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Asia`s Role in Internet Governance

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps24208 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 137-142

Author(s):

Park Y. J.

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Civil Society ◽

Public Sector ◽

The United States ◽

The Internet ◽

Internet Governance ◽

The Public ◽

Policy Negotiation ◽

Global Public Policy

Most stakeholders from Asia have not actively participated in the global Internet governance debate. This debate has been shaped by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) since 198 and the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2006. Neither ICANN nor IGF are well received as global public policy negotiation platforms by stakeholders in Asia, but more and more stakeholders in Europe and the United States take both platforms seriously. Stakeholders in Internet governance come from the private sector and civil society as well as the public sector.

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