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Redistributive Public Employment / Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir, William Easterly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alesina, Alberto.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6746.
- NBER working paper series no. w6746
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transfer payments--Econometric models.
- Transfer payments.
- Public service employment--Econometric models--United States.
- Public service employment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
- Summary:
- Politicians may use disguised' redistributive policies in order to circumvent opposition to explicit tax-transfer schemes. First, we present a theoretical model that formalizes this hypothesis; then we provide evidence that in US cities, politicians use public employment as such a redistributive device. We find that city employment is significantly higher in cities where income inequality and ethnic fragmentation are higher.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 1998.
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