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 …

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 … private sector would lower the unemployment rate and reduce government costs. …

We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of … small positive impact on educational composition and larger negative impact on the private employment of skilled workers, if …

the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment … cycle fluctuations of the labour market variables. -- public sector employment ; public sector wages ; unemployment ; fiscal …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job …-to-job flows, employment separations by reason, flows between inactivity and the labour force and flows by education. I decompose … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well … 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 …

-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …

public sector wages and employment affect male and female unemployment, inactivity rates, and wages differently. … employment, transition probabilities, hours, and wages in the public and private sector using microdata for the United States …

quantitative application to the US labor market, replacement workers represent 2.7 per cent of total employment. …