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Workers’ remittances and government size
Review of Development Economics, 2018In this paper I use a panel of 133 developing countries for the period 1972 to 2012 to estimate the effect of workers’ remittances on the size of government.
K. Williams
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Uncertainty and the size of government
Economics Letters, 2005Abstract Voters decide on a proportional income tax. Uncertainty about government revenue can lead to a larger or smaller tax rate depending on the voters' degree of prudence. It is possible for rich voters to be better off under uncertainty.
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Federalism and the Size of Government
Southern Economic Journal, 1989Over the last few decades, the size of the public sector, in both absolute and relative terms, has increased in all of the Western economies. This has led to considerable investigation of the factors determining government size. Factors considered have included income elasticity of voter demand for public goods (i.e., Wagner's Law); relative price ...
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Optimal Size of the Government
2001The concept of optimal size of government, like the concept of optimal city size, is not very meaningful. A government or city with the “optimal size” means nothing if it does not function well because it is ill-structured. On the other hand, if all the government functions are taken up by the government to the optimal degree and the people in charge ...
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2010
This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Just how many people really work for the federal government? Official counts show a relatively small total of 1.9 million full-time civil servants, as of 1996. But, according to Paul Light, the true head count is nearly nine times higher than the official numbers, with about 17 million people actually ...
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This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Just how many people really work for the federal government? Official counts show a relatively small total of 1.9 million full-time civil servants, as of 1996. But, according to Paul Light, the true head count is nearly nine times higher than the official numbers, with about 17 million people actually ...
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Heterogeneity in the effects of government size and governance on economic growth
, 2018Donghyeon Kim, Yi Wu, S. Lin
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Population size and the size of government
European Journal of Political Economy, 2020Tim Krieger, Daniel Meierrieks
exaly