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dc.contributor.author | Gimpelson, Vladimir | en |
dc.contributor.author | Treisman, Daniel | en |
dc.contributor.author | Monusova, Galina | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:18:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:18:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21003 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when totalemployment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and ratesvaried among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78regions over 1992-1998 we test several hypotheses. We show that the increase in the shareof public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment washighest and growing the fastest, in ethnically defined territorial units, and in regions whichreceived larger federal transfers and loans. Regional governors appear to use publicemployment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion thepopulation against unemployment; as a way of buying votes before elections; and, possibly,as a way of redistributing to minority ethnic groups. Their willingness to use it for any ofthese is conditioned by the level of federal financial aid they can attract. The paradoxicalgrowth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute centralmanagement than a perverse outgrowth of the competitive game of federal politics, in whichregional governors use public sector workers as ?hostages? to extract transfers. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x161 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H51 | en |
dc.subject.jel | P62 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H52 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H72 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H77 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J45 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Redistribution | en |
dc.subject.keyword | regional governments | en |
dc.subject.keyword | unemployment | en |
dc.subject.keyword | transfers | en |
dc.subject.keyword | wages | en |
dc.subject.keyword | wage arrears | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Russia | en |
dc.subject.keyword | transition | en |
dc.subject.stw | Öffentlicher Dienst | en |
dc.subject.stw | Arbeitsmarktpolitik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Public Choice | en |
dc.subject.stw | Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Einkommensumverteilung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Finanzausgleich | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schätzung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Russland | en |
dc.title | Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 835246981 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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