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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570795
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575485
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional preconditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting workers who are motivated to serve the public interest is important to mitigate these problems. We...
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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 positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568310
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
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Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring
Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279234
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Firpo, Sergio; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact … positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional … restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to administrators. In that aspect, the Brazilian accountability system is an …
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