Is There an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects

By M. Dahlberg, Eva Mörk. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence (2013, unknown): “…though incumbents on the German state level reduce deficit spending and maintain a balanced budget they do increase social transfers in the pre-election period, while Dahlberg and Mörk (2011) report a statistically significant election year effect in local public employment in Finland and Sweden.”
• Business Taxes and the Electoral Cycle (2012, background): “Among others, Dahlberg and Mörk (2011) suggest that elections impact on public employment using data for Sweden and Finland.”