This paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions against our data. We find that team size affects the...

An examination of how increased turnover among legislators in the fifty U.S. states affects fiscal policy and economic growth finds that it makes legislators short-sighted. Turnover increases the size of government by increasing the shares of both total spending and taxes in income. In...

Although LEEs are meant to be self-sustaining, if not revenue-generating units, many of them actually incur losses on a continuing basis. Current practice in many LGUs does not engender a clear appreciation of the true cost of the local economic enterprise. COA has documented many cases where...

Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public’s monitoring ability. Still, weak fiscal autonomy can undermine voters’...

This paper analyses whether large governments in Europe reflect efficient responses to a changing social and economic environment (‘welfare economic view’) as opposed to wasteful spending (‘public choice view’). To this end, the effect of government size on subjective well-being is...

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between...

Uno de los grandes problemas que ha enfrentado siempre México es la falta de suficientes recursos tributarios para poder invertir de manera significativa en la infraestructura pública y en, sobre todo, el desarrollo de su capital humano. ESte trabajo contiene cinco propuestas específicas de...

En este trabajo se revisan algunos aspectos de la economía de la Ciudad de México, desde su vocación como una ciudad de servicios y alta tecnología hasta la situación actual de su erario público. Se hace una revisión en particular del estado actual de la deuda de la ciudad.

Which impact does government size have on life satisfaction, and how do effects of bigger government differ between income groups in society? Previous studies typically employed country averages and thus neglect possibly heterogeneous happiness effects between income groups. The paper addresses...

Türkiye’de tiyatroların özelleştirilmesine yönelik çalışmalar ilgili bakanlıklarca sürdürülürken, konu hem sanatsal hem de siyasi platformda tartışılmaktadır. Söz konusu tartışmanın iktisadi analiz çalışmaları ise geri planda kalmaktadır. Makalenin amacı, küresel...