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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

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...

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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton - 2010

last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …

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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities : Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Musterd, Sako - 2016

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US Vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2009

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

Patrinos, Harry A.; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023

difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of transition and EU accession. It is found that the transition from a … significantly, especially through the EU accession channel …

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