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Political Turnover and Bureaucratic Disruption: Evidence from Administrative, Employer-employee Matched Data in Brazil

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  • Mitra Akhtari
  • Diana Moreira
  • Laura Trucco

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We study how political turnover, in particular a change in the political party of the mayor in Brazil, affects the turnover and profile of public employees in local governments. We find that when a new party takes office, there is inflation in the size of the bureaucracy: the share of new employees is 11 percentage points higher in municipalities with a new party in office compared to municipalities with no change in the ruling party. The hiring of new employees takes place within the first few months after the new party takes office and is not compensated for with a concurrent or eventual increase in the share of employees that leave the municipal government. We also document the source and destination employment of all those who enter and leave the municipal government and their portfolios in terms of education, prior wages and alignment between prior and current occupation to better understand selection into public office upon a change in the political party of the government.

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  • Mitra Akhtari & Diana Moreira & Laura Trucco, 2016. "Political Turnover and Bureaucratic Disruption: Evidence from Administrative, Employer-employee Matched Data in Brazil," Working Paper 468676, Harvard University OpenScholar.
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    1. Andrea De Meo & Lorenzo Ferrari, 2018. "Political Turnover and the Performance of Local Public Enterprises," CEIS Research Paper 438, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 08 Aug 2018.

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