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Local Fiscal Equalization in Estonia: Is a Reform Necessary?

Friedrich, Peter; Nam, Chang Woon; Reiljan, Janno - CESifo - 2009

Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...

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Development of Local Public Finance in Europe

Friedrich, Peter; Gwiazda, Joanna; Nam, Chang Woon - CESifo - 2003

This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom. In this context important characteristics of municipal expenditures and revenues are examined in these countries. Differences in government structure (i.e. unitary or federal)...

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Dedicated taxes and rent capture by public employees

Cromwell, Brian A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1989

A test of whether the enactment of a dedicated tax leads to higher payroll and wages for public employees, by means of survey results from the local mass-transit industry.

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Cities in Fiscal Equalization

Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - CESifo - 2008

Redistributive grants schemes, such as fiscal equalization, are a common characteristic of local public finance in several countries. However, large and small jurisdictions are treated differently by the respective fiscal equalization schemes that often tend to favour larger jurisdictions. This...

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Federal grant policies and public sector scrappage decisions

Cromwell, Brian A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1988

An examination of capital policies in the public and private sector through analysis of the scrappage decisions of local mass-transit providers, showing that the structure of federal grants has a direct impact on scrappage rates that leads to shorter equipment life in the local public sector.

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Estimating the relationship between local, public and private investment

Eberts, Randall W.; Fogerty, Michael S. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1987

A discussion of whether public outlays influence private investment, modeling the timing and effectiveness of public infrastructure as a local policy instrument.

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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts

MacLeod, W. Bentley - CESifo - 2006

incomplete contract. It is shown that the efficiency of these solutions is very sensitive to the characteristics of the good or …

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The Effects of Temporary Services and Contracting Out on Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from Auto Suppliers, Hospitals, and Public Schools

Erickcek, George; Houseman, Susan; Kalleberg, Arne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … outsourcing. Adverse effects on compensation are clearest when companies substitute agency temporaries or contract company workers …, organizations only contract out management functions or utilize agency temporaries for brief periods of time, with little direct …

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The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staffing Arrangements

Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

Workers in flexible staffing arrangements - including temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract …

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Observable Strategies, Commitments, and Contracts

Wärneryd, Karl - CESifo - 2014

We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent’s rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit...

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