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Up to now there was a general conviction that increasing unemployment and inflation have a negative impact on the government's popularity. This was true for Germany as well, but it does not seem to hold any longer. This paper first reviews the results of earlier periods before presenting new...
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Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …
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immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers …
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by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …
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Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more … substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of …
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Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary …
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spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While Denmark, Finland and Norway imposed strict measures (‘lockdowns …’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its …
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Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...
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study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the largest infrastructure projects in Germany. The evi-dence suggests that …
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benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …
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