Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment? /

We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled datasets for a large cross-section of developing and advanced countries, and discuss the implications for countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Behar, Alberto
Other Authors: Mok, Junghwan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/146
Online Access:Full text available on IMF