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La distribución de recursos entre Comunidades Autónomas. Una primera aproximación a los cambios derivados del nuevo modelo de financiación/The Distribution of Resources Between Aut...
RECIO, HIERRO; ANGEL, LUIS; ATIENZA MONTERO, PEDRO; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 28 (2010) Abril, pp. 61-76
inequality nor in terms of progressiveness. Nevertheless, the new model produces less reranking and, in consequence, less … financiación autonómica de régimen común con respecto al vigente desde 2002. Para ello se utilizan indicadores de desigualdad y … no conlleva cambios significativos en los efectos redistributivos de las transferencias, ni en términos de desigualdad ni …
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Policy Debates Analysis of US Economic Development Administration Expenditure Patterns over 30 Years
Glasmeier, Amy; Wood, Lawrence - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1261-1274
Administration provides an excellent case study for exploring the challenges facing policies designed to reconcile inequality either …
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Spatial correlation between homicide rates and inequality: Evidence from urban neighborhoods
Menezes, Tatiane; Silveira-Neto, Raul; Monteiro, Circe; … - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 1, pp. 97-99
rates, and that, despite the significant positive effect of inequality on criminality, this influence is mitigated by the …
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Inshoring: The geographic fragmentation of production and inequality
Liao, Wen-Chi - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 1, pp. 1-16
The advent of information technology facilitates the geographic separation of production tasks, which is referred to as offshoring in international contexts and inshoring in domestic contexts. Although the literature on offshoring has flourished, the research regarding inshoring is limited. This...
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Creating conditions for effective public investment : sub-national capacities in a multi-level governance context
Mizell, Lee; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée - 2013
Growth and jobs are top concerns for policy makers confronting difficult economic conditions in many OECD countries. Sub-national governments are important contributors to national growth, but in many cases their economies are struggling as well. Faced with tight fiscal conditions, all levels of...
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Primum vivere ... : industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
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Do Mexicans care about air pollution?
Rodríguez-Sánchez, José Iván - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-24
Mexico has many major problems such as corruption, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, pollution, etc. Regarding pollution, politicians have established some programs trying to improve air quality in Mexico. But they do not know if Mexicans care about air pollution or they prefer that government...
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Regulating high frequency trading : a micro-level analysis of spatial behavior, optimal choices, and Pareto-efficiency in high speed markets
Müller, Camillo von - 2012
The present paper considers the issue of High Frequency Trading (HFT) regulation. Rather than discussing macro-level effects of HFT that are still under debate (Sornette & Von der Becke, 2011) its analysis focuses on the issue of regulation from the perspective of HFT firms. Assuming that HFT...
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Cross-border migration and travel : a virtuous relationship : international migration boosts travel and vice versa, bringing economic benefits but challenging public policy
Poot, Jacques - 2015
The ongoing relationships between emigrants and their families, friends, and business contacts in their home countries can increase outbound and inbound crossborder travel, while cross-border tourism and business and study trips can trigger migration. New communication technologies, such as...
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Measuring the environmental performance of metropolitan areas with geographic information sources
Piacentini, Mario; Rosina, Konstantin - 2012
This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest ecosystems, c) urban density, d) CO2 emissions, e) air...
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