The Effect of Relative Wages and External Shocks on Public Sector Turnover

by the Queensland Public Service, and we are grateful to Dave Stott for providing excellent research assistance and Geraint Johnes and Gareth Leeves for commenting on an earlier draft. Bradley also thanks the School of Economics, University of Queensland, for the provision of excellent facilities to allow the completion of this article. JEL classifications: I10, J22, J44 Correspondence: John Mangan, Department of Economics, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Old., Australia. Email: j.mangan@ uq.edu.au 1 For example, the UK Cabinet Office’s 1999 White Paper on Modernising Government set out an ambitious agenda to ‘reinvent’ and improve many aspects THE ECONOMIC RECORD, VOL. 88, NO. 281, JUNE, 2012, 243–261