Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207404 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12579
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
For the period between 2003 and 2018, we document a number of facts about worker gross flows in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of the public sector. Using the French, Spanish and UK Labour Force Survey and the US Current Population Survey data, we examine the size and cyclicality of the flows and transition probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and education. We decompose contributions of private and public job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent in France and 10 percent in Spain and the US. Private-sector workers would forgo 0.5 to 2.9 percent of their wage to have the same job security as public-sector workers.
Subjects: 
job-separation rate
job-finding rate
worker gross flows
public sector
public-sector employment
JEL: 
E24
E32
J21
J45
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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