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 …

unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment … individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies, and employment histories. We find substantial …

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 …

reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can be annulled by shifts in the public sector employment and wage … policies. Since the public sector accounts for a substantial share of employment in developing countries, this approach is … empirically and theoretically that the liberalization of labor markets plays against informal employment by increasing the …

We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment … unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages in the …. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the …

optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection … models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage …