Why Public Sector Job Growth Is Not Helping

[Annie]

This is to the abstract, you have to register for full report. It's been published in Economic Policy Journal, economists Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andre Zylberberg looked at the impact of public employment on overall labor-market performance. The authors use data for a sample of OECD countries from 1960 to 2000, and they find that, on average, the creation of 100 public jobs eliminated about 150 private-sector jobs, decreased overall labor-market participation slightly, and increased by about 33 the number of unemployed workers:

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[Pepe]

This is to the abstract, you have to register for full report. It's been published in Economic Policy Journal, economists Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andre Zylberberg looked at the impact of public employment on overall labor-market performance. The authors use data for a sample of OECD countries from 1960 to 2000, and they find that, on average, the creation of 100 public jobs eliminated about 150 private-sector jobs, decreased overall labor-market participation slightly, and increased by about 33 the number of unemployed workers:

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[Truthmatters]

why not a study done on the American system instead of all the countries together.

I am amazed you would depend of cheese eating surrender monkeys for a study.