Author : Samya Beidas-Strom
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475584415
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis What has happened to Sub-Regional Public Sector Efficiency in England since the Crisis? by : Samya Beidas-Strom
Download or read book What has happened to Sub-Regional Public Sector Efficiency in England since the Crisis? written by Samya Beidas-Strom and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper estimates public sector service efficiency in England at the sub-regional level, studying changes post crisis during the large fiscal consolidation effort. It finds that despite the overall spending cut (and some caveats owing to data availability), efficiency broadly improved across sectors, particularly in education. However, quality adjustments and other factors could have contributed (e.g., sector and technology-induced reforms). It also finds that sub-regions with the weakest initial levels of efficiency converged the most post crisis. These sub-regional changes in public sector efficiency are associated with changes in labor productivity. Finally, the paper finds that regional disparities in the productivity of public services have narrowed, especially in the education and health sectors, with education attainment, population density, private spending on high school education and class size being to be the most important factors explaining sub-regional variation since 2003.