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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Higgins, Matthew J
• Young, Andrew T
• Levy, Daniel

Titel

Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating Their Separate Roles in US Growth

Ist Teil von

• Public choice, 2009-06, Vol.139 (3-4), p.493-507

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, New York: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We use US county level data from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. Increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively related to economic growth. We find no evidence that government is more efficient at lower levels. While we cannot separate out the productive and redistributive services of government, we document that the county-level income distribution became slightly more unequal from 1970 to 1998. We conclude that a release of government-employed labor inputs to the private sector would be growth-enhancing.