The Labor Market of Italian Politicians, Second Version

Landi, Massimiliano; Merlo, Antonio; Galasso, Vincenzo; Mattozzi, Andrea

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“…39 These measures are commonly used as efficiency benchmarks both in policy analysis (e.g., ANCI, 2012) and in the scientific literature (e.g., Gagliarducci and Nannicini, 2013) for several reasons. With respect to taxes, the 37 We also used other measures (e.g., a dummy for college degree; whether the mayor was self-employed; or whether she was a blue-collar worker), but we found very similar results, namely, small and not statistically significant correlations (available upon request).…”

Section: Local Government Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

2013

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This paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993-2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the number of newspapers, we show that newspaper entry increases turnout in municipal elections, the reelection probability of the incumbent mayor, and the efficiency of the municipal government. We do not find any effect on the selection of politicians. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first newspaper entry.JEL classification: L82, D72, H70.

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Section: Local Government Efficiencymentioning

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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

2013

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“…20 This possibly occurred also because of the likely occurrence of lobbying pressures from the National Bar Associations, and from the many lawyers serving as MPs in the House of Parliament. According to Merlo et al (2010), in fact, although the fraction of MPs coming from the legal services has steadily declined since the Second World War, 10.6% of the MPs are still professionals from the legal sector. In some parties, mostly right-wing leaning, lawyers represent more than one-fifth of the MPs.…”

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“…In some parties, mostly right-wing leaning, lawyers represent more than one-fifth of the MPs. Moreover, among all MPs, lawyers are the most likely to then go back to their legal profession once the parliamentary mandate is completed (53.51%, Merlo et al (2010)), which signals that they could have quite a strong interest in backing legislative initiatives that defend and restore the prerogatives and privileges of their profession.…”

Section: The Institutional Aspects Of the Italian Market For Legal Sementioning

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Advocatus, et non Latro? Testing the Excess of Litigation in the Italian Courts of Justice

Buonanno

Galizzi²

2014

Review of Law &Amp; Economics

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We explore the causality relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian first-instance courts of justice between 2000 and 2007. In this time period, both the number of lawyers and the civil litigation rate sharply increased, and a mandatory minimum fee was in place for lawyers’ services. We first document that the number of lawyers is positively correlated with different measures of the litigation rate. Then, using an instrumental variables strategy, we find that a 10% increase in lawyers over population is associated with an increase between 1.6 and 6% in civil litigation rates. Our empirical analysis supports the supplier-induced demand (SID) hypothesis for Italian lawyers: following a sharp increase in the number of lawyers, and in the impossibility of competing on price because of the minimum fee regulation, some lawyers may have opportunistically used their informational advantage to induce their clients to bring lawsuits into court more often than would have been optimal if they were acting in the exclusive interest of their clients.

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“…As the latter type are arguable 'better' politicians, the quality of parliament would not reduce (increase) following a decrease (increase) in parliamentary pay. In addition, evidence based on data from Italian national MPs suggests that parliamentary salary is negatively associated with politicians' quality (proxied via their education level; Merlo et al 2009). Further analyses clearly need to resolve this ambiguity, and evaluate whether such findings likewise hold for outside-rather inside-income.…”

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Moonlighting Politicians: A Survey and Research Agenda

Geys

Mäuse²

2013

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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Elected representatives in many countries are legally allowed to carry out (un)paid jobs in addition to their political mandate, often referred to as 'moonlighting'. Despite the important selection and incentive effects such outside positions might engender, academic studies evaluating the prevalence, desirability and/or consequences of politicians' moonlighting have remained relatively scarce; often due to severe data restrictions. In recent years, however, more stringent disclosure rules have increased data availability, and large-sample analyses are becoming increasingly feasible. Besides surveying recent empirical contributions to this developing research field, this paper also outlines unresolved issues and thereby develops an agenda for future enquiry.

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The Labor Market of Italian Politicians, Second Version

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Cited by 35 publications

References 26 publications

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Advocatus, et non Latro? Testing the Excess of Litigation in the Italian Courts of Justice

Moonlighting Politicians: A Survey and Research Agenda

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