Benefit incidence analysis is an extremely popular tool to assess the distribution of benefits from government expenditure in developing countries, particularly in the social sectors. The analysis describes the welfare impact of public spending on groups of people or households, typically along...

Representative bureaucracy theory is central to public administration scholarship due to the likely relationship between the demographic composition of the public workforce and both the actual and perceived performance of public organizations. Primary school classrooms provide an ideal context...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie sind auf internationale Vergleichbarkeit angelegte Modellrechnungen zu den langfristigen Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels auf die Alterssicherungssysteme und auf die öffentlichen Finanzen in Deutschland. Das wichtigste Ergebnis aller Varianten der...

This paper investigates the consequences of population aging and of changes in the education composition of the population for macroeconomic performance. Estimation results from a theoretically founded empirical framework show that aging as well as the education composition of the population...