Electoral Cycles and Public Employment in Brazilian Prefectures: Evidence for the years 2002-2013

Rafael Alves de Albuquerque Tavares ()

No 2017_06, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of the municipal elections on the personnel expenses of Brazilian municipal governments, in search of evidence on the existence of electoral cycles in municipal expenditures. Using data that covers the 2002-2009 period, I estimate a Fixed Effects model. The results of the article indicate that in electoral years there is a decrease in personnel expenses. By separating the type of employment relationship of the worker, this article shows evidence that there is a decrease in the number of appointed and by-contract workers and the maintenance of the number of statutory workers. In addition, the total wage bill is reduced for all types of employment relation.

Keywords: Electoral Cycles; Municipal Public Finance; Public Sector Employment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E32 H72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mac and nep-pol
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.repec.eae.fea.usp.br/documentos/RafaelATavares_06WP.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spa:wpaper:2017wpecon06

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Pedro Garcia Duarte ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).