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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that generates underemployment - educated workers performing ...
Garibaldi, Pietro +2 more
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The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline.
Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde
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The World of Public Employment Services [PDF]
, 2016 Public employment services are challenged by expectations of growth, changing conditions in the labor market, and institutional contexts. An important step to meet those challenges, and to better support the strengthening and modernization of public ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017 This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can be annulled by shifts in the public sector employment and ...
Yassin, Shaimaa, Langot, François
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Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important are Networks with Firms? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of caseworkers' characteristics and their strategies.
Behncke, Stefanie +2 more
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Public employment and labour market performance [PDF]
Economic Policy, 2002 Public employment Does it increase unemployment? We explore the consequences of public employment for labour market performance. Theory suggests that public employment may not only crowd out private employment, but also increase overall unemployment if, by offering attractive working conditions, it draws additional individuals into the labour force ...
Algan, Yann +2 more
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Dishonesty and Public Employment
American Economic Review: Insights, 2023 We exploit a natural experiment to study the causal link between dishonest behavior and public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by both a lottery and a medical examination. To avoid conscription, individuals at risk of being drafted had strong incentives to cheat in their medical examination.
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio +2 more
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Employment in the Public Sector [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 This paper presents a model of wage-employment determination in private and public sectors, which allows us to analyze the effects of different institutional arrangements on labor market equilibria. In particular, it focuses on how different degrees of coordination in decision processes affect hiring and wage setting outcomes.
Lorenzo Forni, Raffaela Giordano
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, 2023 New Zealand is facing a burgeoning number of employment advocates in its legal system, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the enactment of the Employment Relations Act (ERA) 2000, New Zealand’s parliament intended that employment disputes
Dimitrov, Dara
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