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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2011
, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting …-60% compared to citizens with an executive position. Hence, we show that the widely held claim that politicians would earn more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601008
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The politicians' wage gap: Insights from German members of parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2011
, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting …-60% compared to citizens with an executive position. Hence, we show that the widely held claim that politicians would earn more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278400
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321370
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Politicians' outside earnings and political competition
Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269063
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Politicians' outside earnings and electoral competition
Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians´ outside earnings. We propose a simple … theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use … that depend on past election outcomes, we find that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297027
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Electoral Competition
Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. We propose a simple … theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use … that depend on past election outcomes, we find that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427533
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264462
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273940
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Do Politicians Shirk when Reelection Is Certain? Evidence from the German Parliament
Bernecker, Andreas - 2013
Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political rent-seeking behavior? For a microanalysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information of German members of parliament (MPs) and including attendance rates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441834