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On the Optimal Structure of Local Governments
Hochman, Oded; Pines, David; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
We show that space matters in designing the optimal provision of local public goods (LPGs). Geography imposes particular institutional structure of local governments due to the overlapping of market areas associated with different LPGs. The optimum can be decentralized through local governments...
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Social Interactions and Labour Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business centre to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
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Urban Labour Economic Theory
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
In this Paper survey some recent developments in urban labour economic theory. We first present a benchmark model in which firms set efficiency wages to prevent shirking and to compensate workers for commuting. We show that both wages and unemployment depend on commuting costs, and that housing...
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Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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The arrival of cheap goods: Measuring the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic prices
Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M; Kropf, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …
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Whence Policy? Government Policies, Finance, and Economic Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
choices and interpret them structurally as reactions, shaped by country-specific characteristics, to exogenous globalization …
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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition
Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a … rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative …
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