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Public goods production and private sector productivity

Norman, Eva Benedicte Danielsen
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2010-07
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Abstract
In this paper we study how the use of resources in the public sector affects

industrial structure, the size and the productivity in knowledge-intensive clusters in local

communities. We also discuss how these considerations should be implemented in costbenefit

assessments of local public goods supply. The topics are studied in a setting where

there are gains from agglomeration in knowledge-intensive industries, creating clusters of

firms in such industries. We find that the primary effect is a Rybczynski effect: If production

in the public sector is knowledge-intensive, the size of the knowledge-intensive private

industry declines when the public sector increases its production. If, on the other hand, public

sector production uses relatively much unskilled labour, increased public goods production

leads to higher production in the knowledge-intensive private industries. Private sector

productivity is affected in the same way as production: If production in the knowledgeintensive

industry increases, so does its productivity due to agglomeration effects; leading to

higher wages for highly skilled labour.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2010:17

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