@article{Perkinson:329930,
      recid = {329930},
      author = {Perkinson, Leon B. },
      title = {Local Government Employment Trends:  Some Perspectives on  Growth and Tax Revolts},
      address = {1979-08},
      number = {1479-2023-022},
      series = {EDD Working Paper No. 7908},
      pages = {26},
      year = {1979},
      note = {Contributed paper for the American Agricultural Economics  Association annual meeting, July 29- August 1, 1979,  Pullman, Washington.  The views presented are the author's  and not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of  Agriculture or North Carolina State University.},
      abstract = {Local government employment relative to population  increased about 70 percent during 1957-1977.  The income  "elasticity" for governmental employment was 1.56, and the  "elasticity" for the public wage bill was 2.25 for the  period.  Average real pay per governmental employee  decreased for each year from 1973 to 1977.  The government  employment-population ratio was higher and increased faster  in metropolitan areas than in nonmetropolitan areas during  1957-1972.  Employment relative to real income was lower in  metropolitan areas.  However, the metropolitan ratio  increased 8 percent while the nonmetropolitan employment-  income ratio fell 11 percent.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329930},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329930},
}