This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative … the local labor market effects of expanding public sector employment. In the second empirical approach, we use regression … employment and population of Spanish cities. This analysis exploits the dramatic expansion of public employment that followed the …

This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative … the local labor market effects of expanding public sector employment. In the second empirical approach, we use regression … analysis to estimate the effects of public sector job expansions on decadal changes (1980-1990 and 1990-2001) in the employment …

sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment … position increases private sector employment by one unit, primarily driven by the service sector. Consistent with existing … literature, we document that the effect of public employment on private employment is highly localized. In addition to changes in …