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Jurisdictional Overlap & the Size of the Local Public Workforce

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  • Goodman, Christopher B

    (Northern Illinois University)

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The United States is a country of many overlapping local governments. Theoretical explorations of the potential influence of this institutional arrangement abound; however, empirical evidence as the influence of such an arrangement on local public sector remains relatively thin. Instead of competing for mobile resources as suggested by Tiebout, overlapping jurisdictions utilize similar tax and voting bases introducing a potential commons problem. Using a county-level dataset from 1972 to 2012, this commons problem is explored. The results suggest that a positive relationship between jurisdictional overlap and the size of local public workforce amounting to approximately a one percent increase in employment or an increase of less than one full-time equivalent employee.

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  • Goodman, Christopher B, 2018. "Jurisdictional Overlap & the Size of the Local Public Workforce," SocArXiv jc7yn_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:jc7yn_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/jc7yn_v1
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