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Examines other non-governmental social groups influencing public schooling in the U.S. in 1981. Discussion of related constitutional and labor laws in the country; Importance of the Supreme Court to educational policies in the federal republic; Impact of collective bargaining on the status of public schooling in the nation.

Comments on an article by Ronald Ehrenberg which analyzed issues related to empirical literature. Criticisms on the examples of empirical literature as cited in the research; Analysis of the impact of unionized employees on public education; Arguments against the model applied in the assessment of data used in a research about public schooling in the U.S.

Comments on a research which assessed the role of state governments in financing recurrent education in Europe in 1981. Importance of trade unions to the establishment of recurrent education in the region; Impact of taxation on funding for recurrent education; Criticisms against the efforts of state governments to improve the status of recurrent education in the region.

Interprets the fiscal illusion hypothesis and the size of government in the context of a voting model. Details of the fiscal illusion in a simple median voter model; Implications of the model for empirical research; Analysis of the optimal investment of resources in deluding and the limits to the illusion in hypothesis.

Deals with the shifting public choice about the wage levels despite a continuous support for minimum wages. Purpose of specifying all the voting groups who were more likely to be significantly affected by minimum wage laws; Ratio of non-white teenage unemployment between 1949 and 1968; Comments on a paper by Holcombe and Metcalf which adds an interesting new dimension to the minimum wage question.

Discusses issues concerning the minimum wage laws in the U.S. Need to educate the public about the law of demand relating to labour; Information on the theory of economist Frank G. Steindl; Discussion of the Downsian economics of politics.