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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 …
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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
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Jumping the queue : Nepotism and public-sector pay
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro - In: Review of economic dynamics 39 (2021), pp. 344-366
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