. Our evidence shows that newspapers do not have a major impact on the selection of politicians, but they play a relevant … role in keeping politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not …

-ideological voters, who care about national and local policies, strongly prefer experts. We show that parties compete on good politicians … prediction. We find that politicians with higher ex-ante quality − as measured by years of schooling, previous market income, and …, the characteristics of politicians belonging to opposite parties converge to high-quality levels in close races …

The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of … sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change their mind. Second, if the reelection prospects of incumbents depend on … performance. Our results show that a higher wage attracts more educated candidates, and that better paid politicians size down the …

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …

distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On the other hand, the effect of technology is more nuanced. At the … industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the … occupations, and we find only mild evidence of wage polarization. Technology affects the lower and upper part of the wage …