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Modelling Australian public service careers

Breunig, Robert; Hansell, David; Win, Nu Nu - 2023

We investigate whether being female, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past twenty years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at...

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Bringing connections onboard: the value of political influence

Green, Colin; Homroy, Swarnodeep - 2020

In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate gains in firm value and...

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Shadow lobbyists

D'Este, Rocco; Draca, Mirko; Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2023

Special interest influence via lobbying is increasingly controversial and legislative efforts to deal with this issue … framework provided by the US Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). Specifically, we study the role of ex-Congressional officials who … join US lobbying firms in positions that could be related to lobbying activity but without officially registering as …

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Shattered dreams : the effects of changing the pension system late in the game

Grip, Andries de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - 2009

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

Leaver, Clare; Ozier, Owen; Serneels, Pieter; Zeitlin, … - 2020

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a pay- for-percentile or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...

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Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts?

Krekel, Christian; Rode, Johannes; Roth, Alexander - 2023

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered...

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On event study designs and distributed-lag models : equivalence, generalization and practical implications

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019

We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and distributed-lag models are numerically identical leading to the same parameter estimates after correct reparametrization. Second, binning of effect...

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Measuring the child penalty early in a career: the case of young adults in France

Bazen, Stephen; Joutard, Xavier; Périvier, Hélène - 2021

There is a large literature on the existence of a child penalty for mothers after the birth of a child. There is little discernible effect on fathers' labour incomes, although some studies find that there is a premium. We measure the penalty due to the birth of a first child for both parents for...

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Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study

Lebedinski, Lara; Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, … - 2020

Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has been identified as one of its key drivers. In this paper we investigate the child penalty in Russia by using longitudinal data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...

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