Does Census Hiring Stimulate Jobs Growth?

Governments perform national, labor-intensive censuses on a regular schedule. Censuses represent many of the largest peacetime expansions and contractions in federal hiring. The predetermined occurrence and scale of the census offers an economic experiment in the effects of temporary government hiri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furth Salim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-07-01
Series:IZA Journal of Labor Policy
Subjects:
e62
e65
h59
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0005