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Public transit wage rates: Pre-Reagan and Reagan-Bush eras
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Ann Schwarz-Miller, Wayne K. Talley (1995). Public transit wage rates: Pre-Reagan and Reagan-Bush eras. Journal of Labor Research, 16(2), 150-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02685738
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