Add to ORKGOur work published last week suggests that public sector employment is good for local services, bad for local manufacturing. In the short run, these effects balance out so that total private sector employment is left unchanged. In the longer run, the effect on local manufacturing appears to be stronger, the effect on local services weaker and total private sector employment decreases offsetting any additional employment from the public sector
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We use the move of the seat of the German government from Bonn to Berlin in 1999 to test competing v...
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For a while now, I have been looking at what happened to local authority employment in the early to ...
I have been doing some research (with my colleague Giulia Faggio) looking at the impact of public se...
Interesting piece from Chris Giles at the FT on the debate around local public sector pay. The big i...
This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English d...
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Government policy on the nature of wage bargaining in the public sector can have important implicati...
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We use the move of the seat of the German government from Bonn to Berlin in 1999 to test competing v...
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