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Just Hire Your Wife! The Relatives Affair in Bavaria – Part Two of the Analysis

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  • Björn Kauder
  • Niklas Potrafke
  • Alexander Stecher

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For a long time members of the Bavarian State parliament were allowed to give relatives jobs as office employees, but as of 2000 this practice was forbidden, with the exception of relatives already employed. An analysis shows that the probability that a directly elected politician will employ relatives rises with the margin of winning votes gained in the previous election. If the margin increases by 1 percentage point, the probability of a relative being employed increases by the roughly the same amount.

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  • Björn Kauder & Niklas Potrafke & Alexander Stecher, 2015. "Just Hire Your Wife! The Relatives Affair in Bavaria – Part Two of the Analysis," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 68(20), pages 20-24, October.
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values

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