Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162343 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA World of Labor [ISSN:] 2054-9571 [Article No.:] 332 [Publisher:] Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [Place:] Bonn [Year:] 2017
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research suggests that these effects are uncertain and critically depend on how public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects.
Subjects: 
public sector employment
public sector wages
unemployment
JEL: 
E23
J45
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Document Type: 
Article

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