Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance /

Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces priv...

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Yazar: Kontolemis, Zenon
Diğer Yazarlar: Demekas, Dimitri
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/055
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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Özet:Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an effective counter-cyclical instrument. Empirical tests for Greece confirm that the expansion of the public sector in the 1980s contributed to the deterioration of labor market performance.
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Fiziksel Özellikler:1 online resource (29 pages)
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ISSN:1018-5941
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