This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …

inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …

open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital …This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small …

composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and … employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …

strategy. This paper evaluates the e®ect of this policy on employment and also on output and welfare. We construct an … equilibrium search model incorporating wage posting and specific human capital investment, where unemployment and the distribution …