01884cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004440 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451849110 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Employment and Wages in the Public Sector : A Cross-Country Study. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995. 1 online resource (52 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We study the determinants of employment and wages in the public sector, using a new set of panel data for 34 LDCs and 21 OECD countries from 1972-992, by estimating equations suggested by an efficiency wage model. We find that government employment is positively associated with the relaxation of resource constraints (the revenue-to-GDP ratio and foreign financing in the case of developing countries and GDP per capita in the case of OECD countries), urbanization, the level of education, and certain countercyclical pressures for government hiring (the real effective exchange rate for developing countries and private employment for OECD countries). Certain measures of government wages are positively associated with government revenues and negatively associated with the level of education, government debt, and countercyclical pressures. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/070 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1995/070/001.1995.issue-070-en.xml IMF e-Library