Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
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- Alberto Behar & Junghwan Mok, 2019. "Does public‐sector employment fully crowd out private‐sector employment?," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(4), pages 1891-1925, November.
- Alberto Behar & Junghwan Mok, 2013. "Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?," CSAE Working Paper Series 2013-20, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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WP; private sector; private-sector employment; Employment; Crowding out; Middle East and Central Asia; employment rate; crowding-out effect; C. private-sector employment; employment dataset; MENAP country; outcomes in the MCD; MCD country; employment equation; MCD countries' employment data; CCA country; labor force; Public employment; Employment rate; Government debt management; Unemployment; Middle East;
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