01882cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013659 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484329412 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Behar, Alberto. Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment? / Alberto Behar, Junghwan Mok. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013. 1 online resource (38 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 quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled datasets for a large cross-section of developing and advanced countries, and discuss the implications for countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia. These countries simultaneously display high unemployment rates, low private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that high rates of public employment, which incur substantial fiscal costs, have a large negative impact on private employment rates and do not reduce overall unemployment rates. Mode of access: Internet Mok, Junghwan. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/146 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/146/001.2013.issue-146-en.xml IMF e-Library