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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections

2017

We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional election system to quantify the effect. One more councilor employed by the public sector increases spending by about 1%. The effect comes largely through the largest party and is specific to the employment sector of the municipal employee. The results are consistent with public employees having an information advantage over other politicians, and thus, being able to influence policy.

Labour economicsSociology and Political Sciencepublic financesEmployment sectorPublic administrationRepresentation (politics)Public spendingPoliticskunnanvaltuustotpolitiikka0502 economics and business050602 political science & public administrationEconomicsta517050207 economicskunnan työntekijätta511julkinen talousjulkiset menotbusiness.industrypublic sector05 social sciencesPublic sectorpublic expendituresJA Political science (General)julkinen sektorimunicipal employees0506 political sciencePolitical Science and International Relationsmunicipal councilspoliticsbusinessAmerican Political Science Review
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Midlife work ability and mobility limitation in old age among non-disability and disability retirees - a prospective study

2016

Little is known about the wellbeing and mobility limitation of older disability retirees. Personal and environmental factors, such as time spent in working life, may either exacerbate or mitigate the onset of mobility limitation in general population. We aimed to study perceived midlife work ability as a determinant of self-reported mobility limitation in old age among municipal employees who transitioned into non-disability and disability retirement. METHODS: 4329 participants of the Finnish Longitudinal Study of Municipal Employees (FLAME) had retired during January 1985 and July 2000. They had data on retirement, perceived work ability in 1985, and self-reported mobility limitation (non-…

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Work ability as a determinant of old age disability severity: evidence from the 28-year Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees

2012

Background and aims: Lower occupational class correlates with a higher disability risk later in life. However, it is not clear whether the demands made by mental and physical work relative to individual resources in midlife predict well-being in old age. This study investigated prospectively whether work ability in midlife predicts disability severity in activities of everyday living in old age. Methods: Data come from the population-based 28-year follow-up called Finnish Longitudinal Study of Municipal Employees. A total of 2879 occupationally active persons aged 44-58 years answered a questionnaire on work ability at baseline in 1981 and activities of daily living in 2009. At baseline, pe…

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