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Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review : Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2021
This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315526
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The EU Budget Dispute - A Blessing in Disguise?
Schneider, Ondrej - 2007
This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget should be reconsidered, as the Union has expanded to 27 member states and has become more heterogeneous. The budget priorities must be re-oriented towards potentially productive...
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Gender Equality in Muslim-Majority Countries
Gouda, Moamen - 2016
Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim-majority countries. By using women's rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women is more pronounced in countries where Islam is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992911
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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011
We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129861
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Government Budget Deficits in Large Open Economies
Buiter, Willem H. - 2011
Large and growing levels of public debt in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and the Euro Area raise new interest in the cross-country effects of a large open economy's deficits. We consider a dynamic optimizing model with costly tax collection and exogenously given public spending and...
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Dynasties and the Political Budget Cycle
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2017
Families often play a significant role in representative democracies. In this paper, we test the extent to which dynastic and non-dynastic leaders differ in their policy making. Our empirical analysis focuses on local politics in Italy, using a large sample of mayors and mayoral candidates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964778
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The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges
Andersen, Torben M. - 2007
Scandinavian countries are often portrayed in policy debates as model examples having shown how to square concerns for efficiency and equity. The core principle of the Scandinavian welfare model is an individual entitlement to public sector provisions combined with collective financing via...
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Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2006
High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions' output employ excess labor, since this induces the sponsor to provide complementary...
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Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes : Evidence from Historical Constitutions
Asatryan, Zareh - 2016
This paper studies the long-run fiscal consequences of balanced budget rules (BBR) that are enshrined in a country's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that the introduction of a constitutional-BBR reduces...
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Spend-and-Tax Adjustments and the Sustainability of the Government's Intertemporal Budget Constraint
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2021
We apply non-linear error-correction models to the empirical testing of the sustainability of the government’s intertemporal budget constraint. Our empirical analysis, based on Italy, shows that the Italian government is meeting its intertemporal budget constraint, in spite of the high levels...
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