Electoral cycles in active labor market policies

Mechtel, Mario and Potrafke, Niklas (2013): Electoral cycles in active labor market policies. In: Public Choice, Vol. 156, No. 1-2: pp. 181-194

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.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Economics; Economics > Chairs > CESifo-Professorship for Public Finance
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Language: English