This article examines the combined impact of the employment guarantee for graduates and public sector compensation policies on the Egyptian labor market. Besides contributing to an unsustainable rate of growth in the government labor force, these ...

As part of their efforts to reduce fiscal deficits, many governments have allowed public sector salaires to erode, often on the assumption that government workers are overpaid vis-a-vis those in the private sector. We test that assumption by analyzing public-private pay differentials in the...