Fölster and Henrekson (1998) claim that they, by addressing a number of econometric problems, can establish that it is likely that economies with a large public sector grow more slowly than economies with a small public sector. But their regressions are fundamentally flawed. Re-estimating their...

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...

This paper explores employee responses to the performace-based pay schemes introduced into the Australian Public service in 1998 and 1999.

The context of the paper is the relationship between the roles of government as an employer, as a prime generator of polivy and as financial controller. The overaching issue is the extent it is possible to match public sector industrial relations with the general policy directions of government...