| Titre | Une évaluation du coût des politiques de création d'emplois publics | |
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| Auteur | Claude Le Pen | |
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Revue | Politiques et management public |
| Numéro | vol. 1, no 1, mars 1983 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 25-47 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article is an attempt to evaluate, theorically and empirically, the economic effect of a public policy of stabilization through public employment. Using the theorical framework by Bacon and Eltis who refer the economic problem of western world to the excessive spendings of public administrations and following their division of the economy into a productive sector and an unproductive one, we show that a shift in public employment involves a double cost for the productive sector : a "financial cost" equal to the ressources unproductively absorbed and a "real" cost corresponding to the opportunity cost of the value non generated in the productive sectors by workers transfered. Nevertheless, the empirical measurement of these both costs for years 1969-1978 in France, shows that this burden is not likely to be responsible for the slow down of economic growth, at least in the short term : the financial cost is in fact much inferior than the "apparent cost" (wages) of public employment since public employees assume a share of their own financing. Moreover, in a situation of excess of supply in the labor market, the opportunity cost tends to decrease near zero. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/pomap_0758-1726_1983_num_1_1_1706 |
