The slowing of public sector hiring has been a tool for sector downsizing and one of the markers of the reform trajectory in public administration in Egypt. The effect of this long-term and non-confrontational approach to downsizing on the workforce of the public sector is captured in this article using a unique national panel dataset. The analysis shows that the share of public sector employment has declined in a pattern punctuated by a number of critical junctures that shaped the trajectory of the adoption of New Public Management (NPM)-inspired policies. The data shows that the sector workforce is becoming more educated, older, and slightly more feminized. Despite the specificity of the context of Egypt, the analysis furthers the study of public sector reform trajectories and the complexity of the contextualization of NPM-inspired policies in countries with a socialist legacy in the global South.

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“不像父亲，像儿子”：埃及公共部门就业改革

公共部门招聘放缓是部门缩减规模的工具，也是埃及公共行政改革轨迹的标志之一。本文使用独特的国家面板数据集捕捉了这种长期且非对抗性的裁员方法对公共部门劳动力的影响。分析显示，公共部门就业比例下降的模式不时出现一些关键时刻，这些关键时刻影响了新公共管理（NPM）政策的采用轨迹。数据显示，该行业的劳动力受教育程度更高，年龄更大，女性化程度也更高。尽管埃及的国情具有特殊性，但该分析进一步研究了南半球国家公共部门改革轨迹以及受新公共管理启发的政策的背景复杂性。