Sri Lanka directs its macroeconomic policies to fulfill its economic objectives. The variables of Government expenditure, Government size, Economic growth, Inflation, and Unemployment are vital in this regard. However, despite following strategies based on assumption of nexus between the said...

We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host of factors that influence the effect of...