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dc.contributor.authorGimpelson, Vladimiren
dc.contributor.authorTreisman, Danielen
dc.contributor.authorMonusova, Galinaen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:18:33Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:18:33Z-
dc.date.issued2000-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/21003-
dc.description.abstractPublic 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.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x161en
dc.subject.jelH11en
dc.subject.jelH51en
dc.subject.jelP62en
dc.subject.jelH52en
dc.subject.jelH72en
dc.subject.jelH77en
dc.subject.jelJ45en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordRedistributionen
dc.subject.keywordregional governmentsen
dc.subject.keywordunemploymenten
dc.subject.keywordtransfersen
dc.subject.keywordwagesen
dc.subject.keywordwage arrearsen
dc.subject.keywordRussiaen
dc.subject.keywordtransitionen
dc.subject.stwÖffentlicher Diensten
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmarktpolitiken
dc.subject.stwPublic Choiceen
dc.subject.stwRegionale Arbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwEinkommensumverteilungen
dc.subject.stwFinanzausgleichen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwRusslanden
dc.titlePublic Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn835246981en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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