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Do unions promote members' electoral office holding? Evidence from correlates of state legislatures' occupational shares

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012

outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Lobbying, corruption and other banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments

Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Lewis, William P. - 2012

We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, fiscal and demographic factors, we also control for the state tax and expenditure limitations....

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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a "xeroxed" exam

Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...

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Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility

Guggenberger, Patrik; Kaul, Ashok; Kolmar, Martin - 2001

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor...

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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