Public employment redux.

Autor/inn/en	Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Public employment redux. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wiederbelebung der öffentlichen Beschäftigung.
Quelle	Bonn (2019), 61 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 12871
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Beschäftigungsstruktur; Öffentlicher Dienst; USA; Privatwirtschaft; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Lohnstruktur; Einkommensunterschied; Überqualifikation; Einkommensunterschied; Staatlicher Sektor; Einkommenseffekt; Lohnstruktur; Privatwirtschaft; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Öffentlicher Dienst; USA
Abstract	"The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features. First, alongside a perfectly competitive private sector, a cost-minimizing government acts with a wage schedule that does not equate supply and demand. Second, our economy features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that generates underemployment - educated workers performing unskilled jobs. The equilibrium model is parsimonious and is calibrated to match key moments of the US public and private sectors. We find that the public-sector wage differential and excess underemployment account for 15 percent of the education bias, with the remaining accounted for by technology. In a counterintuitive fashion, we find that more wage compression in the public sector raises inequality in the private sector. A 1 percent increase in unskilled public wages raises skilled private wages by 0.07 percent and lowers unskilled private wages by 0.06 percent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3