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Economic returns to Communist Party membership : evidence from urban Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak-wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - 2006

China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes … party membership ; China …

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Party membership and state jobs in urban China

Ma, Yuanyuan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2013

document preferences and premiums for state jobs in urban China over private jobs. The state sector attracted the best workers …

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The wage premium of Communist Party membership : evidence from China

Wang, Hongjian; Nikolov, Plamen; Acker, Kevin - 2019

on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and earnings and found a positive correlation … estimate the causal effect of Chinese Communist Party membership on monthly earnings in China. We find that, on average …, membership in the Communist Party of China increases monthly earnings and the wage premium has grown in recent years. We explore …

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In the eye of the beholder : subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework intended for describing individuals' subjective evaluations of occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the distinction between individuals' perceptions and their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893801

Demand for redistribution, support for the welfare state, and party identification in Austria

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...

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Third-party vs. second-party control : disentangling the role of autonomy and reciprocity

Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon D.; Landini, Fabio - 2015

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....

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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...

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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data

Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? : evidence from village council elections in India

Dey, Subhasish; Sen, Kunal - 2016

Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection...

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Immigration to the US : a problem for the republicans or the democrats?

Mayda, Anna Maria; Peri, Giovanni; Steingress, Walter - 2015

We empirically analyze the impact of immigration to the U.S. on the share of votes to the Republicans and Democrats between 1994 and 2012. Our analysis is based on variation across states and years – using data from the Current Population Survey merged with election data – and addresses the...

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