Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

	Public sector workers		Private sector workers
	Men	Women	Men	Women
Log weekly wages	6.79	6.53	6.64	6.38
State-level measures
Public sector unionization	0.30	0.29	0.36	0.36
Private sector unionization	0.09	0.08	0.10	0.10
Proportion of workforce in public sector	0.17	0.17	0.16	0.16
Lagged employment rate	0.94	0.94	0.94	0.94
GDP	1.98	2.00	2.05	2.03
GDP growth	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
Proportion with at least a BA	0.29	0.29	0.30	0.30
Risk of automation	4.01	4.01	4.00	4.00
Proportion in manufacturing	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.14
Individual-level measures
Race
White	0.74	0.71	0.70	0.72
Black	0.12	0.16	0.08	0.11
Hispanic	0.08	0.08	0.16	0.11
Other	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05
Missing	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Experience	22.42	22.24	19.42	19.90
Education
Less than HS	0.07	0.04	0.17	0.11
HS	0.24	0.26	0.34	0.36
Some college	0.25	0.27	0.25	0.31
At least 4 years of college	0.44	0.43	0.24	0.22
Hours worked per week	42.03	40.18	42.97	39.81
Metro
In city	0.74	0.73	0.80	0.81
In rest of SMSA	0.24	0.25	0.19	0.18
Not in SMSA	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01
Region
Northeast	0.10	0.09	0.17	0.18
North central	0.19	0.20	0.23	0.24
South	0.50	0.53	0.38	0.37
West	0.22	0.19	0.23	0.21
N	150,829	188,010	1,202,178	1,033,069

Notes: Data come from CPS Survey from 1977 to 2015; we rely on the CPS-May files for 1977-1981, and the CPS-merged outgoing rotation group (ORG) files for 1983-2015. Means and proportions are weighted.