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dc.contributor.authorBecker, Johannesen
dc.contributor.authorPeichl, Andreasen
dc.contributor.authorRincke, Johannesen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-21-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:52:14Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:52:14Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2009010799en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35469-
dc.description.abstractThis paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent on outside work is negatively related to the degree of electoral competition. We test this hypothesis using a new dataset on outside earnings of members of the German federal assembly. Taking into account the potential endogeneity of measures of political competition that depend on past election outcomes, we find that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3902en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelJ45en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPolitical competitionen
dc.subject.keywordoutside earningsen
dc.subject.keywordpolitical rentsen
dc.subject.stwPolitikeren
dc.subject.stwNebentätigkeiten
dc.subject.stwRent Seekingen
dc.subject.stwWahlkampfen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titlePoliticians' outside earnings and political competition-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn589762192en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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