Author: David A. Wise
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: payrolls, sector, public
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 1987-03-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226902919
ISBN-13: 9780226902913

An estimated one out of five employees in this country works for some branch of government. Because policies concerning the compensation of these employees rest on assumptions about the economic dynamics of the public sector, the issue of public sector employment is of vital importance in the analysis of the national economy. In Public Sector Payrolls, leading economists explore the independent and interdependent functioning of the public and private sectors and their effect on the economy as a whole. The volume, developed from a 1984 National Bureau of Economic Research conference, focuses on