In school finance lawsuits, plaintiffs often claim that pay levels are not sufficient to recruit teachers who can deliver constitutionally-mandated levels of educational services. In this paper I consider several ways in which one might bring economic theory and data to bear on that question. I conclude that at present, and at least for the near term, education research cannot prescribe an “ade...

The article on the minimum wage (News August 6) suggests that if nurses and care assistants are to receive a lair day's pay for a fair day's work, patients will suffer in the short, medium, and long term, because there will be fewer staff.

this study aims to identify job stressors faculty members of birjand university and its relationship with quality of work life. the research method was descriptive and correlational that using cochran's sampling formula that sample size was determined by actual count, 136 members and simple random sampling was used. job stress (hse) questionnaire with reliability (α= 0.90) and quality of w...

Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants’ efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants’ prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to an all-pay-auction; it yields larger expe...