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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power
Dahlberg, Matz; Nilsson, Heléne Lundqvist; Mörk, Eva - CESifo - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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A Market for Connections
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2012
Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548151
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector,using a model of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406416
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011120473
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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Delcentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance: The Case of Vietnam
Vu, Thanh Thuy; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - CESifo - 2012
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645635
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Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kessing, Sebastian; Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2006
High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions’ output employ excess labor, since this induces the sponsor to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181370
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Optimal Taxation under Regional Inequality
Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - CESifo - 2014
Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces relocation incentives through higher taxes or lower transfers. Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how...
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Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles
Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2012
We use real]time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575440
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Spill-over Effects of Affirmative Action: Political Representation and the Power of the Elderly
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2014
politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in candidate lists for local elections in 1993, and was … politicians. We find that gender quotas are associated with election of politicians that are younger by more than one year. The … effect occurs mainly due to the reduction in age of elected male politicians and is consistent with the optimizing behavior …
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Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; … - CESifo - 2012
We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We … a Difference in Differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the quality of elected politicians. We … find that gender quotas are associated with a higher average number of years of schooling of elected politicians, with the …
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