Stephen A Woodbury

Biographic Data

ID1048771
NAMEStephen A Woodbury
GIVEN NAMESStephen A
FAMILY NAMEWoodbury
SIGNATUREWOODBURY S A
AFFILIATIONSW.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
ORCID0000-0002-4474-2415
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders

    Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2022

    We employ a revealed preference test to distinguish between wage posting and wage bargaining. Using a sample of dual jobholders in Washington State, we estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a secondary job. In lower parts of the wage distribution, improvements in the outside option lead to higher separations rates but not to higher wages, consistent with wage posting. In the highest wage quartile, improved outsi…

  • Government Spending on the Elderly

    James Marton, D Papadimitriou et al.BOOKGovernment Spending on the Elderly2007

  • Taxes, Fringe Benefits and Faculty

    Stephen A Woodbury, Daniel S HamermeshARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1992

    The growth of employee benefits in academe has closely paralleled their economy-wide growth. This study estimates a complete system describing the demand for benefits and wages using panel data on 1477 institutions of higher learning. the demand for benefits is very responsive to changes in real income and the tax price of benefits. These conclusions are robust with respect to varying definitions of the tax price, treating it as endogenous, and a…

  • The Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits

    Alicia H Munnell, Stephen A Woodbury et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1992

    Woodbury and Huang use econometric models to investigate how changes in the tax treatment of fringe benefits can be expected to influence the level of benefits and compensation provided by employers, federal revenues, and income inequality

  • Power in the Labor Market: Institutionalist Approaches to Labor Problems

    Stephen A WoodburyARTICLEJournal of Economic Issues1987

    This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume II considers basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of

  • The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs

    Stephen A Woodbury, Robert A HartARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1986

    1. Introduction 2. The Structure of Non-wage Labour Costs: Definitions and Distinctions 3. The Quantitative Importance of Non-wage Labour Costs 4. Why do Firms incur such Costs? 5. Factor Substitution and Non-wage Labour Costs 6. Cyclical Employment Effects 7. Wage Inflation and Wage Rigidities 8. Unemployment Insurance, Other Obligatory Social Welfare Contributions and Unemployment 9. Worksharing and Non-wage Labour Costs 10. Fringe Benefit Paym…

  • The Scope of Bargaining and Bargaining Outcomes in the Public Schools

    Stephen A WoodburyARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1985Cited by: 4

    This study examines state-to-state variations in the legality of bargaining over class size in public schools, to determine, first, whether these variations in the legal scope of bargaining bear any relationship to actual class sizes and, second, whether these variations are indirectly associated with teachers' salaries. Using a model of the quality of education to analyze data from the 1977 Census of Governments on 4,851 independent school distr…