The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Local Labour Markets

Giulia Faggio and Henry Overman

SERC Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003 to 2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each additional public sector job creates 0.5 jobs in the nontradable sector (construction and services) while crowding out 0.4 jobs in the tradable sector (manufacturing). When using data for a longer time period (1999 to 2007) we find no multiplier effect for nontradables, stronger crowding out for tradables and, consistent with this, crowding out for total private sector employment.

Keywords: Local labour markets; public and private sector employment; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ure
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