Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …-study designs around council elections, we find that blue-collar representatives reduce involuntary separations, consistent with …