Electoral Cycles in Active Labor Market Policies

Mario Mechtel and Niklas Potrafke

No 2011-39, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

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 jobpromotion schemes before elections.

Keywords: political business cycles; opportunistic politicians; active labor market policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H61 H72 J08 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011-10-06
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