Arbeitspapier
Jobs Cronyism in Public-Sector Firms
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We find that public-sector appointments increase significantly over the months just after elections but only if the new government is of a different political colour than its predecessor. These results are consistent with a simple model of cronyism and hold in multiple robustness checks. Overall, we find our evidence to be consistent with politically-induced misallocation of public resources.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 624
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Public Sector Labor Markets
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Labor Demand
- Thema
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Corruption
matched employer-employee panel data
public-sector employment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Martins, Pedro S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Essen
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Martins, Pedro S.
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Entstanden
- 2020
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