Public Sector Job Creation Schemes: A Reply

Abstract

Crowding-Out 1. many projects undertaken as part of would have been undertaken in the absence of the program This is the fiscal substitution argument. Under different economic conditions, or under different Federal-State financing arrangements, some of the may have been carried out. Or alternatively, as suggested by SW National Advisory Group on Local Employment Initiatives, 1987). If finding examples of waste and inefficiency were the criteria for determining the acceptability of any expenditure program, then would be no expenditure justification in either the public or private sectors. Equity 1. there are numerous examples from overseas where employment prospects are actually made worse by participation in PSJCS This is interesting, since all the available evidence for Australia indicates a significant improvement in post-employment prospects through participation in (Sutton, 1985,12; DEIR, 1985). With an integrated LMP, incorporating and training programmes, the employment prospects of participants can be enhanced. …