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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning versus Re-election Concerns
Le Borgne, Eric; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
becomes a more accurate signal of their ability. Elections reduce the learning effect, and the reduction in this effect may … more than offset the positive ‘re-election concerns’ effect of elections on effort, implying higher effort with appointment …. When this occurs, appointment of officials may welfare-dominate elections. …
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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market: Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013), pp. 1-17
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our...
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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market : evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - 2013
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126844
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-17
characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative …
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of public economics 146 (2017), pp. 79-86
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Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections
Shapiro, Jesse; Benjamin, Daniel J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
the actual two-party vote share across the 58 elections in our study, and their importance survives a range of controls …, including state fixed effects. In a horse race of alternative forecasting models, participants' visual forecasts significantly …
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness in any electoral system, and apply it to the Finnish proportional open list system. Getting elected to...
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Pay for politicians and candidate selection: An empirical analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 877-885
-in-differences analysis, using candidates in municipal elections as a control group, suggests that the higher salary increased the fraction of …
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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; … - In: Journal of Public Economics 118 (2014) C, pp. 62-74
local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during this period, we …
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Direct Democracy and Public Employees
Matsusaka, John G. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 2227-46
In the public sector, employment may be inefficiently high because of patronage, and wages may be inefficiently high because of public employee interest groups. This paper explores whether the initiative process, a direct democracy institution of growing importance, ameliorates these political...
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