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The Determinants And Trends In Public-Private Wage And Fringe Benefit Differential, Sun Ki Choi
The Determinants And Trends In Public-Private Wage And Fringe Benefit Differential, Sun Ki Choi
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
The decline in private sector wages in the aftermath of the Great Recession reopened a longstanding debate about whether public sector employees make more than private sector employees. However, much of this debate has only focused on the difference in wages over the past few years. This paper uses the Current Population Survey from 1995-2013 to examine how the federal-private wage differential has evolved over time. Wage regressions are estimated by year for federal and private sector workers. I then use these estimates to calculate the federal-private wage differential. This is augmented with selectivity bias corrections for each year. Probit …
Regulatory Coherence And Standardization In The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Phoenix X.F. Cai
Regulatory Coherence And Standardization In The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Phoenix X.F. Cai
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article posits a new taxonomy and framework for assessing regulatory coherence in the new generation of mega-regional, cross-cutting free trade agreements. Using the Trans-Pacific Partnership as the primary example, this article situates the rise of regulatory coherence within the current trade landscape, provides clear definitions of regulatory coherence, and argues that the real engine of regulatory coherence lies in the work of international standard setting organizations. This work has been little examined in the current literature. The article provides a detailed examination of the mechanics by which the Trans-Pacific Partnership promotes regulatory standardization and concludes with some normative implications …