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'Living' Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021

, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict …

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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...

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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Bakshi, Dripto - 2015

partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict …

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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2008

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework … competition. We test this hypothesis using a new dataset on outside earnings of members of the German federal assembly. Taking … into account the potential endogeneity of measures of political competition that depend on past election outcomes, we find …

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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the …

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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan - 2018

Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...

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Democratisation Under Diversity : Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities

Pal, Sarmistha; Mitra, Anirban - 2021

the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour … non-developmental items, all of which is consistent with our theory …

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An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...

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