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The New Urban Fiscal Economics, Roy W. Bahl
State And Local Government Finances: Was There A Structural Break In The Reagan Years?, Roy W. Bahl, William D. Dumcombe
State And Local Government Finances: Was There A Structural Break In The Reagan Years?, Roy W. Bahl, William D. Dumcombe
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The Reagan administration's "New Federalism" and tax reform proposals were expected to have chilling effects on growth of state and local government revenues and expenditures. This paper examines the hypothesis that there was a structural break in state and local government fiscal behavior in the 1980s. Although the evidence is far from conclusive, it does suggest some different fiscal patterns in this decade. However, the real structural break appears to have occurred in the late 1970s and these trends have continued during the Reagan years.
Federal Policy, Roy W. Bahl
Voting For Wage Concessions: The Case Of The 1982 Gm-Uaw Negotiations, Bruce Kaufman, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Voting For Wage Concessions: The Case Of The 1982 Gm-Uaw Negotiations, Bruce Kaufman, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
ECON Publications
The authors of this paper use the median voter model to predict the patterns of rank-and-file voting on wage concessions in a multiplant setting, then test those predictions using data from the 1982 GM-UAW negotiations. The model predicts that workers in plants with large layoffs will vote in favor of a wage concession only if they believe that a concession will save their jobs. Surprisingly, workers in plants with growing or stable employment are also actually more likely to vote Yes. A third prediction is that the Yes vote will be smallest in plants with the most adversarial labor relations. …