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Public Enterprises and Labor Market Performance

Johannes  Hörner,  L. Rachel  Ngai,  Claudia  Olivetti,  January 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0610: | Full paper

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Keywords: European Unemployment; Public Sector Employment

JEL Classification: E240; J450; J640

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This Paper is published under the following series: CEP Discussion Papers

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Abstract:

This paper shows that state control of some industries may have contributed to the increase in European unemployment from the 1970s to the early 1990s. We develop a simple model with both publicly-run and privately-run enterprises and show that when economic turbulence increases, higher unemployment rates may result in economies that have a larger public sector.