Alesina, Alberto; Rostagno, Massimo; Danninger, Stephan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as...