Joel, Your source? Seth
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, joel blau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: joel blau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Half-baked Keynes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 4:30 PM No, it is much more than a few points; instead it is 7.5% in the private sector, and something 27% in the public. Joel Blau Seth Sandronsky wrote: > > Unionization rates for U.S. private sector workers are a few percent lower than the rate for government workers. This data suggests at least one factor in the higher pay of the latter versus the former, no? > > > Seth Sandronsky > > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:57:43 -0500 > > From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Half-baked Keynes > > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; > > delsp=yes > > > > On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Perelman, Michael wrote: > > > > I know that you may find some examples, but public employees > > typically make less – although with benefits, the case is less clear > > cut. > > > Of course there are lots of details about education, but still, on > average, public sector workers in the U.S. make more than private - > almost 30% more per hour. > > > <http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl0910.pdf> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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