Public employment redux

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 gen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Government and Economics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667319321000033