Employment in government in the perspective of the production costs of goods and services in the public domain

"As part of its work programme for 2005-2006, the Public Governance Committee of the OECD mandated the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD (GOV) to start developing comparable data and indicators of good government and efficient public services. This work is ongoing and is part of GOV's work programme for 2007-2008. Within the overall framework of the project, GOV has been mandated to develop a new methodology to gather comparable data on public employment. The goals of the methodology have been: i. to measure the production costs of goods and services of ' the public domain' (goods and services produced by the public sector, and by the private sector but funded by government); and, ii. to put public employment numbers and costs in the perspective of these wider costs. The idea behind this methodology was thus not only to measure employment in government, which gives an indication of the size of employment that government has to manage, with usually different employment rules from the private sector. It was also to measure the other costs associated to the production of goods and services funded by government, and especially those produced by the private sector." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Befragung; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1995 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).