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You cited two studies and both are not unbiased. EPI is a lefty organization just as biased as Heritage is. Take a look at their board of directors then tell me with a straight face they are unbiased. You seem to think that Ezra (who himself is biased) commenting on the EPI study is a whole separate study.
And I have provided a researched and sourced argument to the study you provided. That is more then just my opinion.
The fact that you are unaware of other studies is your fault. Not mine. If I was only looking for studies to confirm my own bias, I would be just as clueless as you of all the studies that refute my position.
The sources I cited:
"x
Nationally, state and local governments spent $26.25 per hour per
employee in 2010, with 34% of total compensation represented by benefits.
Private industry employers spent $27.88 per hour, with 29.4% for benefits.3
x
A study of national data controlling for education, work experience, annual
hours worked, organizational size and other factors found that total
compensation was 1.8% less for local government employees and 7.6% less
for state government employees than for comparable private sector
workers.4
x
A separate study found that state government employees across the
country earned 6.8% less in total compensation than comparable private
sector peers between 2000 and 2008, and local government employees
earned 7.4% less.5
x
According to an analysis by the Seattle Times, median wages for the same
type of work was lower for Washington state government workers than in the
private sector in the majority of nearly 200 occupational categories
examined. State government workers tended to earn higher wages in lower
paying jobs."
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EPI Study - "the Economic Policy Institute conducted comparing total compensation -- that is to say, wages and health-care benefits and pensions -- among public and private workers in Wisconsin. To get an apples-to-apples comparison, the study's author controlled for experience, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship and disability, and then sorted the results by education"
Ezra Klein - Are Wisconsin's state and local workers overpaid?
"New research by a University of Illinois expert in employment relations and labor economics shows that, for more than a decade, Wisconsin teacher salaries have fallen behind changes in the cost of living as well as wage growth in the private sector. Craig A. Olson, a professor of labor and employment relations, says the salaries of Wisconsin teachers have lost ground to those of their private sector counterparts over the last 16 years.
The paper compares the earnings of an average college graduate employed in the private sector in the U.S. versus the earnings of an average college-educated teacher in Wisconsin through public data from 1995 to the present."
Study: Over 16-year span, Wisconsin teacher salaries lag private sector wages |News Bureau | University of Illinois
Vs the sources you have cited:
Zero..........zip...........nada...............
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