Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth.
Surplus labor in the public sector--a characteristic of many developing countries--is viewed in this paper as the consequence of rent-seeking behavior. A theory is presented of a segmented labor market with endogenous government hiring in response to unemployment. A simple computable general equilib...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1991
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