Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth.

This paper argues that the labor transfer process outlined by the Lewis model (1954) can give rise to surplus labour - in the sense than the marginal product of labour is less that the wage - in the public part of the modern sector and that this may deprive the modern sector of its dynamism. Moreove...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Principais autores: Knight, J, Sabot, R, Gelb, A
Formato: Working paper
Idioma:English
Publicado em: World Bank 1988