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Labour market flows : accounting for the public sector
Fontaine, Idriss; Galvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Gomes, Pedro; … - 2019
probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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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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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 - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803194
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You're the one that i want! : public employment and women's labor market outcomes
Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoë - 2019
public sector wages and employment affect male and female unemployment, inactivity rates, and wages differently. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126775
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302182
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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 Employment Redux
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843719
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153290
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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 76 (2014) 4, pp. 463-483
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