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Edition: Available editions Global Perspectives. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in Get newsletter. Articles Contributors Links Articles on public sector Displaying 1 - 20 of 26 articles Around the world, government officials fail often at implementing policy and public sector projects. Shutterstock Research around the world shows a consistent pattern of failures in public sector policy and project implementation. Yet we continue to embark upon implementation built on bias and faulty logic. The Trump administration is preparing to shift billions in veterans' health care spending to private providers.

Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research suggests that these effects are uncertain and critically depend on how public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects. Expanding public sector employment can be an effective means of reducing unemployment in the short term, providing a stabilizing effect during recessions or in relatively disadvantaged regions. Public sector employment can create demand in other sectors of the economy e.

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Public sector , portion of the economy composed of all levels of government and government-controlled enterprises. It does not include private companies, voluntary organizations, and households. The general definition of the public sector includes government ownership or control rather than mere function and thereby includes, for example, the exercise of public authority or the implementation of public policy.