摘要：Using newly released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this paper provides empirical estimates of the effect of government employment on gross state product. Cross-sectional data from 1982 are combined with a simple growth model to show that higher levels of government employment generally have a positive and significant effect on gross state product, with state and local employment levels having apparently greater influence. A first-differences variant of the model supports the cross-sectional findings. However, the positive influence of absolute government size may be offset by a negative relationship between GSP growth and the relative size of government.
