Employment and Wages in the Public Sector : A Cross-Country Study.

We study the determinants of employment and wages in the public sector, using a new set of panel data for 34 LDCs and 21 OECD countries from 1972-992, by estimating equations suggested by an efficiency wage model. We find that government employment is positively associated with the relaxation of res...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/070
Online Access:Full text available on IMF