The big challenge for the new government is to avoid large and rapid reductions in public-sector employment before private-sector jobs start to come through.

Centralized public administration focuses public-sector employment on a single community, assisting it over its neighbors.

In reality, the development projects served to swell the ranks of public-sector employment and line the pockets of a small elite.

Mr. Matsui rejects time limits and therefore has no need to guarantee public-sector employment.

The answer inexorably raises the prospect of public-sector employment, with all the big spending and taxpayers' sacrifice that implies.

Heavily reliant on public-sector employment, the city's housing market could do with a boost.

Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise.

Total public-sector employment rose steadily from 5.9 million in 1961 to 7.4 million in 1977 before showing reductions each year at least until 1988.

It is possible to assemble total estimates of public-sector employment by region and county, but only up to 1987.

Some 933,000 private-sector jobs disappeared in the 12 months to June this year while public-sector employment rose by 289,000.