• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Jumping the queue : nepotism and public-sector pay
  • Contributor: Chassamboulli, Andri [VerfasserIn]; Gomes, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Bonn, Germany: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, March 2020
  • Published in: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Discussion paper series ; 13086
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 69 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: Graue Literatur
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  • Description: We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring lowers the unemployment rate because it limits the size of queues for public-sector jobs. Wage and employment policies impose an endogenous constraint on the number of workers the government can hire through connections.
  • Access State: Open Access