Umfang und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Sektors

[Machine translation] On the one hand, the public sector includes institutions that are in particular, finance through compulsory taxes (tax authority of the state), such as local authorities, and Parafisci, on the other hand, legal persons operating under the, State control, in particular public companies., A summary that is by no means comprehensive, but nevertheless provides insight, Public activities represent government quotas. These set both, on the expenditure side of the budget (spending ratios) as well as on the revenue side, (Tax quotas). These vary both temporally and geographically, between individual countries., The reasons for the rise in government quotas after the Second World War are, in the fact that public goods are superior goods (Wagner's, Act) that public goods are the main services with, low productivity gains (Baumol's cost illness), as well as in, demographic factors (urbanization, ageing).