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Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

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Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

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Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck

Journal title

Finanzarchiv, 2008-09, Vol.64 (3), p.364-379

Language

English

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Mohr Siebeck

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Contents

Is it a sheer coincidence that the egalitarian Scandinavian countries have significantly larger government employment shares than the much less egalitarian United States? A positive correlation between equality and government employment share in the OECD indicates that it is not a coincidence. We suggest a nonlinear relation between equality and go...

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Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

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TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_44271

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_44271

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ISSN

0015-2218

E-ISSN

1614-0974

DOI

10.1628/001522108X374188

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