| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22088 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22088 |
| Efficient Local Government Service Provision: The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions | |
| Rhiannon Jerch; Matthew E. Kahn; Shanjun Li | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-03-21 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector’s productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both over time and across space, we examine public bus service, which represents a standardized output for benchmarking the cost of local government service provision. There is significant dispersion across transit agencies in the operating cost per bus mile with the highest being more than three times as high as the lowest among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could result in cost savings of $5.7 billion in 2011 and that the gain in economic efficiency from more closely aligning bus fares with production costs would be worth at least half a billion dollars. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Market Structures ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22088 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579762 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rhiannon Jerch,Matthew E. Kahn,Shanjun Li. Efficient Local Government Service Provision: The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions. 2016. |
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| w22088.pdf（932KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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