Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry - In: Journal of Urban Economics 79 (2014) C, pp. 91-107
This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local … Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector … employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each …