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- ISSN : 18151973 (en ligne)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
The Labour Market Impact of Rapid Ageing of Government Employees
Some Illustrative Scenarios
This paper estimates and discusses some of the potential labour market implications arising from the rapid ageing of government employees in a number of OECD countries. Under alternative scenarios for future public employment policies, available labour resources for the private sector are estimated taking into account the declining age cohorts entering the labour market. These scenarios suggest that, in the absence of considerable increases in labour utilisation, maintaining government sector hiring at their historical share of new labour market entrants will entail sharp declines in the production of government services. On the other hand, if present levels of government services are to be preserved, governments are likely to hire an increasing share of labour market entrants, creating a strong crowding-out effect for the private sector. Alternatively, productivity in the government sector would have to increase substantially.
Mots-clés: social services, retirement, labour supply and demand, government sector, employment, productivity, ageing
JEL:
J11: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts;
J45: Labor and Demographic Economics / Particular Labor Markets / Public Sector Labor Markets;
O57: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economywide Country Studies / Comparative Studies of Countries;
H11: Public Economics / Structure and Scope of Government / Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
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