Public Employment and Compensation Reform During Times of Fiscal Consolidation /

This paper compiles and compares recent and past measures introduced to contain the public wage bill in a number of emerging and advanced economies to assess their effectiveness in bringing down expenditure in a sustained way. In the aftermath of the Great Recession a number of countries have approv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forni, Lorenzo
Other Authors: Novta, Natalija
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/192
Online Access:Full text available on IMF