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How to make the metropolitan area work? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study how political boundaries and fiscal competition interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic structure and performance of metropolitan areas. Contrary to general belief, institutional fragmentation need not be welfare-decreasing, and commuting from the suburbs to...

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Regional Growth in Japan

Shioji, Etsuro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy...

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Determinants of Interregional Mobility in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Andrienko, Yuri; Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low, it turns out that its intensity does depend on...

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Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia

Guriev, Sergei; Vakulenko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia for 1995-2010. We find that barriers that hindered internal migration in 1990s have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in poverty traps:...

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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...

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The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon; Michael, Thomas; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …

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Factors and Effects of Trade Reorientation in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …

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Tax Reform, Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Restructuring in Hungary

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The two central economic problems facing Hungary are its large foreign debt and its relatively poor rate of growth over … the 1980s. The paper examines some of the reform issues facing Hungary, starting with the tax reforms of 1988 and 1989 …

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