Jumping the queue: Nepotism and public-sector pay Articles uri icon

authors

  • Chassamboulli, Andri
  • BATISTA MAIA GOMES, PEDRO

publication date

  • January 2021

start page

  • 344

end page

  • 366

volume

  • 39

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1094-2025

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1096-6099

abstract

  • 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.

subjects

  • Economics

keywords

  • nepotism; public-sector employment; public-sector wages; queues; unemployment