Does Fiscal Policy Reduce Unemployment? Evidence from Pork-Barrel Spending

Studies of the effect of government spending on unemployment are potentially confounded by reverse causality. To address the endogeneity problem, we exploit variation in a pork-barrel road-building program, and find that higher government expenditure on road-building substantially reduces local unemployment

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Leigh, Andrew ; Neill, Christine
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Finanzpolitik \| Fiscal policy \| Öffentliche Ausgaben \| Public expenditure \| Theorie \| Theory

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (9 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 6, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1415445 [DOI]
Classification:	E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages ; E62 - Fiscal Policy; Public Expenditures, Investment, and Finance; Taxation ; H30 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents. General ; H54 - Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014207366