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Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay
Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019
We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...
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Does Public Sector Outsourcing Decrease Public Employment? Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...
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Labor Market Hardships and Preferences for Public Sector Employment and Employers : Evidence from Russia
Jin, Olivia; Pyle, William - 2021
A growing literature connects labor market hardships to stronger preferences for government welfare and redistribution programs. Potential preference shifts with respect to other types of state involvement in the economy, however, have gone unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and...
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Do Left-Wing Governments Decrease Wage Inequality Among Civil Servants? Empirical Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013
social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …
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Social Capital and Crises with an Application to Iceland
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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Petty Corruption and Citizen Feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
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Private Enforcement, Corruption, and Antitrust Design
Grajzl, Peter; Baniak, Andrzej - 2015
corruption-free or plagued by corruption. Contingent on the nature of adjudicatory bias, bribery either discourages private … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of … can be social welfare-enhancing even in the presence of corruption. Under some circumstances, corruption actually …
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Immunity
Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - 2013
corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …
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Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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