Public Sector Employment, Quality of Government, and Well-Being: A Global Analysis
| Autor: | Robert J. Davidson, Alexander C. Pacek, Benjamin Radcliff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Low income
Government Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public sector Middle income 0506 political science 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Development economics Well-being 050602 political science & public administration Quality (business) business 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Area Studies Review. 24:193-204 |
| ISSN: | 2049-1123 2233-8659 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/22338659211011747 |
| Popis: | While a growing literature within the study of subjective well-being demonstrates the impact of socio-political factors on subjective well-being, scholars have conspicuously failed to consider the role of the size and scope of government as determinants of well-being. Where such studies exist, the focus is largely on the advanced industrial democracies of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. In this study, we examine the size of the public sector as a determinant of cross-national variation in life satisfaction across a worldwide sample. Our findings strongly suggest that as the public sector grows, subjective well-being increases as well, conditional on the extent of quality of government. Using cross-sectional data on 84 countries, we show this relationship has an independent and separable impact from other economic and political factors. |
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