Arbeitspapier
Electoral Cycles in Active Labor Market Policies
We examine how electoral motives influence active labor market policies that promote job-creation. Such policies reduce unemployment statistics. Using German state data for the period 1985 to 2004, we show that election-motivated politicians pushed job-promotion schemes before elections.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 2
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Labor Economics Policies
State and Local Budget and Expenditures
Fiscal Policy
National Budget; Budget Systems
- Subject
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political business cycles
opportunistic politicians
active labor market policies
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mechtel, Mario
Potrafke, Niklas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
- (where)
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Tübingen
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-55939
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mechtel, Mario
- Potrafke, Niklas
- University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Time of origin
- 2011
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