How important are rising costs in explaining the rapid expansion in local public spending? As those who have studied output and costs in the public sector are well aware, the problem of measuring the unit costs of public services is a formidable one. One must identify units of outputs and inputs in a way which can be rendered operational; this in itself is no easy task. Our aim in undertaking this study was to see what (if anything) can be said, on the basis of available data, about the trend over time in the unit costs of local public services. Although we find that we can make only few rigorous inferences from the data, we feel that this paper can serve two purposes. First, we will present some data and observations on the rate of increase of costs for a variety of locally produced public services, data which suggest strongly that rapidly rising unit costs, by any reasonable definition, have been a major source of fiscal pressure on local governments. Second, we hope that the study has some value both in terms of illuminating further the nature of the problem of measuring units of public output and in suggesting the kinds of data which would be required to provide a sound basis for measuring trends in productivity for these services. It is essential that we define conceptually at the outset what we mean by a unit of output of a public service. When one examines the various measures of public output which have been advanced in the study of this problem, it becomes clear that often the authors are talking about quite different things. There exist real ambiguities about just what one means by public output (or the output of any good for that matter), and it is of central importance that we make clear what it is that we want to measure.
For a useful survey of the work on measuring units and costs of public output, see Werner Hirsch. Units of Public Output
How important are rising costs in explaining the rapid expansion in local public spending? As those who have studied output and costs in the public sector are well aware, the problem of measuring the unit costs of public services is a formidable one. One must identify units of outputs and inputs in a way which can be rendered operational; this in itself is no easy task. Our aim in undertaking this study was to see what (if anything) can be said, on the basis of available data, about the trend over time in the unit costs of local public services. Although we find that we can make only few rigorous inferences from the data, we feel that this paper can serve two purposes. First, we will present some data and observations on the rate of increase of costs for a variety of locally produced public services, data which suggest strongly that rapidly rising unit costs, by any reasonable definition, have been a major source of fiscal pressure on local governments. Second, we hope that the study has some value both in terms of illuminating further the nature of the problem of measuring units of public output and in suggesting the kinds of data which would be required to provide a sound basis for measuring trends in productivity for these services. It is essential that we define conceptually at the outset what we mean by a unit of output of a public service. When one examines the various measures of public output which have been advanced in the study of this problem, it becomes clear that often the authors are talking about quite different things. There exist real ambiguities about just what one means by public output (or the output of any good for that matter), and it is of central importance that we make clear what it is that we want to measure.
For a useful survey of the work on measuring units and costs of public output, see Werner Hirsch. Units of Public Output
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How important are rising costs in explaining the rapid expansion in local public spending? As those who have studied output and costs in the public sector are well aware, the problem of measuring the unit costs of public services is a formidable one. One must identify units of outputs and inputs in a way which can be rendered operational; this in itself is no easy task. Our aim in undertaking this study was to see what (if anything) can be said, on the basis of available data, about the trend over time in the unit costs of local public services. Although we find that we can make only few rigorous inferences from the data, we feel that this paper can serve two purposes. First, we will present some data and observations on the rate of increase of costs for a variety of locally produced public services, data which suggest strongly that rapidly rising unit costs, by any reasonable definition, have been a major source of fiscal pressure on local governments. Second, we hope that the study has some value both in terms of illuminating further the nature of the problem of measuring units of public output and in suggesting the kinds of data which would be required to provide a sound basis for measuring trends in productivity for these services. It is essential that we define conceptually at the outset what we mean by a unit of output of a public service.เมื่อสรุปมาตรการต่างๆของภาครัฐออกซึ่งมีขั้นสูงในการศึกษาปัญหานี้ จะเห็นได้ชัดเจนว่า บ่อยครั้งที่ผู้เขียนพูดถึงสิ่งที่แตกต่างกันมาก มีเพียงสิ่งหนึ่งจริงงงงวยเกี่ยวกับวิธีการออกสาธารณะ ( หรือผลผลิตดี ๆสำหรับเรื่องที่ ) , และมันเป็น ความสำคัญที่เราให้ชัดเจนกลางมันคืออะไรที่เราต้องการวัด
For a useful survey of the work on measuring units and costs of public output, see Werner Hirsch. Units of Public Output
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