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Title: Race, Crime, and Police Pay: A Study in Compensating Wage Differentials
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: This paper is an exploration of factors impacting police pay. The goal of this paper is to isolate the impact of crime on police pay to measure the compensating wage differential resulting from on-the-job danger for police officers (as measured by violent crime rates). In addition, the analysis allows the estimated compensating differential to vary with the race of the individual police officer as well as with the demographic composition of the police departments and populations served. Previous work on the determinants of police pay informs the analysis, including the empirical measures, regression specification, and control variables.
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Authors: Dowd, Eamon, P
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
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Degree: Economics Honors Thesis
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Pages: 35
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
Countries: United States