A5115411347- Gender Politics and Representation
- Housing Market and Economics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
University of Copenhagen
2025
Abstract The remuneration of MPs affects who engages in politics. Even if average returns to office are positive, as found all other studies, some officeholders’ likely negative. Further, the timing is crucial politicians often enjoy delayed compensation like lucrative pensions. Utilizing administrative data for parliamentary candidates Denmark from 1994 2015, we estimate first-time runners’ earnings and total income office. Based on income, practically elected experience economic gains...
Abstract We investigate how sexism and harassment affect political candidates’ preferences for positions by deploying a conjoint experiment among candidates in the 2021 Danish local elections. find that, compared to men candidates, women experience far more harassment, assess their risk of victimization as being higher. Correspondingly, reveals that state stronger equal working environments politics than men, while holding similar formal conditions like positions, remuneration, workload....
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