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Do left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants? : empirical evidence from the German states
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...
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And yet it grows : crisis, ideology, and interventionist policy ratchets
Bjørnskov, Christian; Rode, Martin - 2016
Previous studies of policy responses to economic crises argue that crises may lead to more interventionist policy but also cause deregulation. The empirical evidence in previous studies is equally mixed. The present paper argues that whether or not governments implement more or less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554109
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Coalition Governments in a Model of Parliamentary Democracy
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Oak, Mandar - 2006
We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a … they may be ideologically `disconnected'. The coalitions that form depend upon the relative importance of rents of office … and seat shares of the parties. If rents are high, governments cannot be surplus. With low rents or the formateur close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312508
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Immigration, Economic Freedom, and Ideology
Padilla, Alexandre - 2020
Concerns about immigration and its impact on the institutions of the countries that welcome immigrants are not new. In the United States, we find such concerns in the correspondences and writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Recently, in response to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848952
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269624
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925572
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Capital, Ideology, and the Liberal Order
Cowen, Nick; Geloso, Vincent - 2021
Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology (2020) offers a powerful critique of ideological justifications for inequality in capitalist societies. Does this mean we should reject capitalist institutions altogether? This paper defends some aspects of capitalism by explaining the epistemic function...
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Ideology and pluralism : a German view
Heise, Arne - 2019
As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135052
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Economic Theory, Anti-Economics and Political Ideology
Ross, Don - 2010
The paper reviews the basis for claims by anti-economists, over history and from both conservative and radical perspectives, that economics cannot be fully purged of ideological elements and to that extent cannot be scientific. The paper first distinguishes five versions of this thesis, and then...
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Ideologues : explaining partisanship and persistence in politics (and elsewhere)
Buehler, Benno; Kessler, Anke S. - 2010
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