%0 Journal Article
%T Jurisdictional Overlap and the Size of the Local Public Workforce
%A Christopher B. Goodman
%J State and Local Government Review
%@ 1943-3409
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0160323X18774402
%X 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. Using a county-level data set from 1972 to 2012, this overlap problem is explored. The results suggest that a positive relationship between the jurisdictional overlap and the size of local public workforce amounting to approximately a 1 percent increase in employment or an increase of less than one full-time equivalent employee
%K public employment
%K Tiebout
%K interjurisdictional competition
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0160323X18774402