Electoral cycles in active labor market policies

Mario Mechtel and Niklas Potrafke

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine how electoral motives influence active labor market policies that promote (short term) job-creation. Such policies reduce measures of unemployment. Using German state data for the period 1985 to 2004, we show that election-motivated politicians pushed job-promotion schemes before elections.

Date: 2013
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Published in Public Choice 1-2 156(2013): pp. 181-194

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