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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-32
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
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Fiscal policy and the labour market : the effect of public sector employment and wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824
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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle
Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020
private sector would lower the unemployment rate and reduce government costs. …
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Jumping the queue : nepotism and public-sector pay
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro - 2020
as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public …-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring lowers the unemployment rate because it limits the size of queues for public …
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Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro - 2023
wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230176
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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Perez-Duarte, Sebastien; … - 2015
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2019
Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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Jumping the queue : nepotismand public-sector pay
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro - Panepistēmio Kypru / Department of Economics - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041903
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Meritocracy, public-sector pay and human capital accumulation
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro - Panepistēmio Kypru / Department of Economics - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906820