caa a22 4500 388070668 CHVBK 20180307125148.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022890 doi S0022050700022890 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022890 Troesken Werner Associate Professor of History and Economics, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7403, E-mail troesken+@pitt.edu. Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896 [Elektronische Daten] [Werner Troesken] Few systematic studies of the effects of patronage on public-sector employees' wages and working conditions exist. Exploiting a sample of nearly 90,000 workers, this article provides systematic evidence: Where patronage was widespread, state and local employees earned 40 percent more per hour; worked 16 to 17 percent fewer hours; and earned 22 percent more per week than comparable private-sector workers. Public-sector wage premia varied; low-skilled workers, and workers in Baltimore and New York, enjoyed relatively large wage premia. Wages were less dispersed in the public sector than in the private, suggesting that pay scales reflected politics, not marginal products. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 424-446 0022-0507 59:2<424 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022890 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022890 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Troesken Werner Associate Professor of History and Economics, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7403, E-mail troesken+@pitt.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 424-446 0022-0507 59:2<424 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge