Political Business Cycles in Local Employment
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Using employment data for municipalities, we find strong evidence of political business cycles. Employment increases shortly before elections mainly in municipalities where the mayor´s party has a majority of deputies in the municipal assembly and where she is running for reelection. Classification-JEL: D72, H7.Download Info
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Paper provided by NIPE - Universidade do Minho in its series NIPE Working Papers with number 13/2005.Length:
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Keywords: Political business cycles; local governments; employment; Portugal.;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
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