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Are Public Sector Jobs Recession-Proof? Were They Ever?

Rosen, Harvey; Kopelman, Jason L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use data from the Displaced Worker Survey supplements of the Current Population Survey from 1984 to 2012 to investigate the differences in job loss rates between workers in the public and private sectors. Our focus is on the extent to which recessions affect the differential between job loss...

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Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections

Shapiro, Jesse; Benjamin, Daniel J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We showed 10-second, silent video clips of unfamiliar gubernatorial debates to a group of experimental participants and asked them to predict the election outcomes. The participants' predictions explain more than 20 percent of the variation in the actual two-party vote share across the 58...

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Mediocracy

Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

political party may deliberately choose to recruit only mediocre politicians, in spite of the fact that it could afford to … recruit better individuals who would like to become politicians. We argue that this finding may contribute to explain the …

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Political Careers or Career Politicians?

Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i ….e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave … careers of politicians in an environment with a private sector and a political sector, where individuals are heterogeneous …

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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?

Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income distribution. I evaluate a 2010 California mandate that required cities to submit municipal salaries to the State, to be posted on a public website. City managers--typically the...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

bloom, nicholas; Propper, Carol; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

Earle, John; Telegdy, Álmos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance

Propper, Carol; van Reenen, John; Hall, Emma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

casella, alessandra; Turban, Sébastien; Wawro, Gregory J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....

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