Don't federal and state workers effectively have tenure? Isn't it
virtually
impossible to fire a government worker covered by civil service in
America?
DBL
It's hard to fire government employees, especially civil service employees,
partly because we wanted to remove most of these jobs
In a message dated 10/5/02 11:10:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Private employers have occasionally tried something like tenure--it has
been
widely aspired to in Japan since WW2 (although only the larger employers
have been able to apply it in practice) and IBM was for many years famous
One possible explanation for tenure is that university departments
are to a large degree worker managed firms. One problem with a worker
David Friedman
David's explanations make sense, but I'm empirically skeptical on
two grounds:
(1) Why is it that only educational worker managed firms
Don't federal and state workers effectively have tenure? Isn't it virtually
impossible to fire a government worker covered by civil service in America?
DBL
misbehave.
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Seriously, why does tenure exist at all? I know
a significant
compensating wage differential if not offered
Chris Auld
Department of Economics
University of Calgary
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Seriously, why does tenure exist at all? I know the motivations
for tenure, but why isn't it competed
William Dickens wrote:
Obviously the supply side of the academic labor market values this and is willing to
forgo some money compensation to get it. Evidently the cost of producing this amenity
for academic employers is generally less than the value to the employees so there are
very few
raise. Government subsidies and private charity give universities the
cushion they need to avoid being put out of competition by
performance-oriented for-profits.
Prof. Bryan Caplan
While I share Bryan's skepticism, I don't buy his argument because
One possible explanation for tenure is that university departments
are to a large degree worker managed firms. One problem with a worker
managed firm is that the workers may spend their resources on
political rent seeking--trying to make sure they are in a dominant
coalition--rather than
Seriously, why does tenure exist at all? I know the motivations
for tenure, but why isn't it competed away somehow? I would like
to know what economic process ensures its continued existence.
Fabio
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