OTOH, as could be expected, wages do tend to fall when something is moved from public to private sector.
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Contemporary free-market/privatizing critics charge that civil service
rules make personnel management difficult (Richard Eling found that
fewer than 2% of state and local workers are dismissed each year).
They also complain that public employees on average have higher incomes
than do private sector workers (Eling found that lower-paid public
workers do receive higher pay than private sector counterparts, but
mid-level, professional, and upper-level people do better in private
sector).
Significantly, cuts in social service programs are not only attacks on poor but also on minorities and women who comprise a larger share of 'middle-strata' employment in public sector than in private.
As for unions, 45% of all government workers are represented with collective bargaining highest among firefighters, sanitations workers, and teachers (most are prohibited from striking.
Provision of collective bargaining that most conflicts with civil service is the seniority provision. Michael Hoover