Abstract
High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions’ output employ excess labor, since this induces the sponsor to provide complementary inputs in the future. Restrictions on hiring decisions in the public sector can be regarded as provisions to reduce strategic hiring. We also provide evidence from a survey of decision makers in a public sector bureaucracy with very high employment protection. The results confirm that decision makers are aware of the strategic effects of their hiring decisions on budget allocation.
Item Type: | Paper |
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Keywords: | bureaucratic competition; time consistency; labor intensity; public sector |
Faculties: | Economics > Chairs > MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
JEL Classification: | H11, H61, H83 |
Place of Publication: | München |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 24477 |
Date Deposited: | 02. Apr 2015, 13:29 |
Last Modified: | 13. Apr 2017, 14:16 |