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A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship ofUnemployment Benefits
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence onprofits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earningsrelationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages and increase employment. Thisraises the question as to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862298
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption inLocal Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economicdevelopment. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862786
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128218
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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129100
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters ﾖ especially those to …
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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the … decentralization promoted development mostly in communities which transited out from elite capture to embrace free and fair elections … under either elite capture or free and fair elections did the worst. These findings suggest that while the emergence of …
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Gans, Joshua S. - 2011
electoral endorsements that newspapers give to each side of politics in federal elections. Overall, we find that the Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117760
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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State : A Political Economy Model
Bossi, Luca - 2011
In this paper, we set up a three-period stochastic overlapping generations model to analyze the implications of income inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs under the welfare state. We investigate...
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