Robert J Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4515-3516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Government Wage Differentials in a Municipal Labor Market
Previous studies of wage and fringe benefit differentials between public and private sector workers have generally employed one of three different methods to measure the differentials. This study is the first to use all three simultaneously. The authors find that the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority provided total hourly compensation that was 82.8% higher for cleaners, 82.9% higher for bus drivers, and 31.3% higher for mechanics than the co…
Cotidie meditare. Theory and Practice of the meditatio in Imperial Stoicism
Welfare Expenditures and the Decline of Unions
To what extent has the increased supply by government of certain union-like services reduced the demand for union membership and thereby contributed to the decline in trade union density? The existing empirical evidence is meager and conflicting. The puropse of our paper is to reexamine the government substitution hypothesis, specifically with respect to the relationship between government welfare spending and union density. We test the hypothesi…
Regional Wage Differentials and the Spatial Convergence of Worker Characteristic Prices
Stephen C. Farber, Robert J. Newman, Regional Wage Differentials and the Spatial Convergence of Worker Characteristic Prices, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 224-231
Rediscovering the De Remediis Fortuitorum
Econometric analysis of business tax impacts on industrial location
Accounting for South/Non-South Real Wage Differentials and for Changes in Those Differentials over Time
Stephen C. Farber, Robert J. Newman, Accounting for South/Non-South Real Wage Differentials and for Changes in Those Differentials over Time, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 215-223
Growth in the American South
The Effects of Right-to-Work Laws
This paper reviews the several studies that have assessed the impact of right-to-work (RTW) laws on union membership, wages, and industry location. The authors show that the considerable difference in findings among these studies results largely from whether a study treats the presence or absence of an RTW law as an exogenous variable or one jointly endogenous with the extent of unionism in a state. Studies using the latter approach, which the au…
The Effects of Right-to-Work Laws
Growth in the American South
Industry Migration and Growth in the South
FOR at least the last two decades the South and Southwest have been the fastest growing regions in the United States. During this period we have witnessed considerable shifts in the location of economic activity and, overall, the movement has been decidedly toward the South. Since the early sixties, when this southern migration began to accelerate, an increasing amount of public attention has been directed to this topic; so much so that it is now…
On the Prospects for American Trade Union Growth
THEORISTS of the American labor movement long have argued over the causes of fluctuations in union membership and the prospects for future union growth. For a number of years, the hypothesis of Commons (1932) and Perlman (1966), which related union expansion to the business cycle, was the most widely accepted explanation of the fluctuations in union membership. the years, a number of critics such as Dunlop (1948), Shister (1953), and Bernstein (1…
On the Prospects for American Trade Union Growth
THEORISTS of the American labor movement long have argued over the causes of fluctuations in union membership and the prospects for future union growth. For a number of years, the hypothesis of Commons (1932) and Perlman (1966), which related union expansion to the business cycle, was the most widely accepted explanation of the fluctuations in union membership. the years, a number of critics such as Dunlop (1948), Shister (1953), and Bernstein (1…
Industry Migration and Growth in the South
FOR at least the last two decades the South and Southwest have been the fastest growing regions in the United States. During this period we have witnessed considerable shifts in the location of economic activity and, overall, the movement has been decidedly toward the South. Since the early sixties, when this southern migration began to accelerate, an increasing amount of public attention has been directed to this topic; so much so that it is now…
The Effects of Right-to-Work Laws
This paper reviews the several studies that have assessed the impact of right-to-work (RTW) laws on union membership, wages, and industry location. The authors show that the considerable difference in findings among these studies results largely from whether a study treats the presence or absence of an RTW law as an exogenous variable or one jointly endogenous with the extent of unionism in a state. Studies using the latter approach, which the au…
The Effects of Right-to-Work Laws
Growth in the American South
Growth in the American South
Accounting for South/Non-South Real Wage Differentials and for Changes in Those Differentials over Time
Stephen C. Farber, Robert J. Newman, Accounting for South/Non-South Real Wage Differentials and for Changes in Those Differentials over Time, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 215-223
Rediscovering the De Remediis Fortuitorum
Econometric analysis of business tax impacts on industrial location
Cotidie meditare. Theory and Practice of the meditatio in Imperial Stoicism
Welfare Expenditures and the Decline of Unions
To what extent has the increased supply by government of certain union-like services reduced the demand for union membership and thereby contributed to the decline in trade union density? The existing empirical evidence is meager and conflicting. The puropse of our paper is to reexamine the government substitution hypothesis, specifically with respect to the relationship between government welfare spending and union density. We test the hypothesi…
Regional Wage Differentials and the Spatial Convergence of Worker Characteristic Prices
Stephen C. Farber, Robert J. Newman, Regional Wage Differentials and the Spatial Convergence of Worker Characteristic Prices, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 224-231
Government Wage Differentials in a Municipal Labor Market
Previous studies of wage and fringe benefit differentials between public and private sector workers have generally employed one of three different methods to measure the differentials. This study is the first to use all three simultaneously. The authors find that the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority provided total hourly compensation that was 82.8% higher for cleaners, 82.9% higher for bus drivers, and 31.3% higher for mechanics than the co…
Economics (9 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Wage (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)