Employment, Privatization, and Managerial Choice: Does Contracting out Reduce Public Sector Employment?
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We examine the effects of private sector contracting on public employment using panel data from the Census of Governments and International City/County Management Association surveys conducted in 1997 and 2002. We model decisions about contracting and the size of the public workforce as jointly-dependent decisions affecting both full-time and part-time employment. Our results from a seemingly unrelated regression indicate that full-time employment is reduced when additional contracts are awarded to private for-profit providers, while part-time employment increases. An increase in contracting with private non-profit providers appears to have no impact on full and part-time employment.
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