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Resisting Migration: Wage Rigidity and Income Distribution

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Like any trade activity, migration tends to generate gains to all parties involved - the migrants as well as the native-born population. With a mal-functioning labour market, however, migration will exacerbate the imperfections in the market. Consequently, it may lead to losses to the...

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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?

Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Rajasekhar, D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance in the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as empirically the effect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, but also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to...

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Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden

Bergman, Mats; Johansson, Per; Lundberg, Sofia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with increased competition. We assemble a large data set on...

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs

Van Zandt, Timothy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a model in which boundedly rational members of an administrative staff calculate resource allocations in real time. We consider a class of hierarchical procedures in which information about payoff functions flows up and is aggregated by a hierarchy, while allocations flow...

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The Architecture of Federations: Constitutions, Bargaining, and Moral Hazard

Kessler, Anke; Luelfesmann, Christoph; Myers, Gordon M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

centralization and decentralization are suboptimal as long as political bargaining does not take place. With bargaining, however, the … first best can often be achieved under decentralization, but not under centralization. At the root of this result is the …

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Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization

Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating …. The efficiency of decentralization and the performance of 'constitutional rules' (such as majority voting) which may be … used to choose between decentralization and centralization are then discussed in this framework. Stronger externalities and …

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Decentralization and Political Institutions

Enikolopov, Ruben; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Does fiscal decentralization result in more efficient governance and higher economic growth? This Paper empirically … tests the hypothesis posed by theoretical literature that the effect of economic decentralization depends on features of the … political institutions. Using data from 95 countries for the last 25 years, we show that the effect of decentralization on …

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Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: a Political Economy Analysis

Besley, Timothy J.; Coate, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

of centralization stressed in the existing literature disappear, suggesting that the case for decentralization must be … driven by political economy considerations. Our political economy analysis assumes that under decentralization public goods …

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition

Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...

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