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The Politicians’ Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128098
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A model of tournament incentives with corruption
Wang, Bin; Zheng, Yu - 2018
We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … widespread corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907238
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926
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Corruption Under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244240
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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality
Nieva, Ricardo - 2020
We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203665
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A Dynamic Theory of Regulatory Capture
De Chiara, Alessandro; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2021
Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236193
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Relative status and satisfaction
Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894168
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Income and happiness : new results from generalized threshold and sequential models
Boes, Stefan (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the most well-known representatives being the ordered logit and the ordered probit. However, these models restrict the marginal probability effects by design, and therefore limit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002202970
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Parental separation and well-being of youths
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001807296
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105