The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a … important forms of compensation to public-sector workers. Harmonizing the characteristics of public employment with those of the …

We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … the labor force depend crucially on the structure of the labor market. An increase of skilled public-sector wages has a … small positive impact on educational composition and larger negative impact on the private employment of skilled workers, if …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well …-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring lowers the unemployment rate because it limits the size of queues for public …-sector jobs. Wage and employment policies impose an endogenous constraint on the number of workers the government can hire through …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

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 …