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Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
Tella, Rafael Di - 2002
We provide the first empirical analysis of gubernatorial pay. Using US data for 1950-90 we document, contrary to widespread assumptions, substantial variation in the wages of politicians, both across states and over time. Gubernatorial wages respond to changes in state income per capita and...
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A Structural Model of Electoral Accountability
Aruoba, S. Borağan - 2015
This paper proposes a structural approach to measuring the effects of electoral accountability. We estimate a political agency model with imperfect information in order to identify and quantify discipline and selection effects, using data on U.S. governors for 1982-2012. We find that the...
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Tournament-Style Political Competition and Local Protectionism : Theory and Evidence from China
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that inter-jurisdictional competition in a regionally decentralized authoritarian regime distorts local politicians' incentives in resource allocation among firms from their own city and a competing city. We develop a tournament model of project selection that captures the driving...
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Limits to Competition : Strategies for Promoting Jurisdictional Cooperation
Agrawal, David R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Inefficiencies from tax competition may result in governments seeking to limit fiscal competition via tax treaties, harmonization, minimum tax rates, or interjurisdictional cooperation. I propose a general model applicable to studying many types of taxing instruments, which allows for the...
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Macroeconomía del populismo en la América Latina
Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor);  … - 1992 - 1. ed
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Optimal Income Transfer Programs : Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses
Saez, Emmanuel - 2000
income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …
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How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
Gustman, Alan L. - 2000
for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …
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Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2000
This paper examines the extent of redistribution that would occur under various annuity and bequest options as part of … account balance. However, efforts to reduce the extent of redistribution generally do so at the cost of significantly lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471215
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The Progressivity of Social Security
Coronado, Julia Lynn - 2000
How much does the current social security system really redistribute from rich to poor? We use the PSID to estimate lifetime wage profiles and actual earnings each year for a sample of 1778 individuals, and we use mortality probabilities to calculate expected payroll taxes and social security...
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Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies : Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies?
Janeba, Eckhard - 2000
skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment …
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