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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Konrad, Kai A. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Time consistency and bureaucratic budget competition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
p.1-15. |
| 362 ## - DATES OF PUBLICATION AND/OR SEQUENTIAL DESIGNATION |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation |
Jan |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions output employ excess labour, since this induces the sponsor to provide complementary inputs in the future. Restrictions on hiring decisions in the public sector can be regarded as provisions to reduce strategic hiring. We also provide evidence from a survey of decision makers in a public sector bureaucracy with very high employment protection. The results confirm that decision makers are aware of the strategic effects of their hiring decisions on budget allocation. - Reproduced. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Civil service |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kessing, Sebastian G. |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Main entry heading |
Economic Journal |
| 908 ## - PUT COMMAND PARAMETER (RLIN) |
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| Put command parameter |
N |
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77868 |
