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What do we Know about the Relationship between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?

Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …’). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time (‘green growth’) the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size. The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy.

Addario, Sabrina Di; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2010

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs … instrumenting urbanization. Provinces’ competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost of labour, earning differentials between … urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of negative differentials in returns to entrepreneurship …

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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2011

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...

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Urban Squatting with Rent-Seeking Organizers

Brueckner, Jan K. - CESifo - 2012

This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...

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Urbanization and Growth: Why Did the Splendor of the Italian Cities in the Sixteenth Century not Lead to Transition?

Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - CESifo - 2014

explain why urbanization did not drive the economy to sustained growth. Our main contribution, validated by an estimated VAR … productivity. The analysis provides a picture of a trapped economy where urbanization was unable to trigger a persistent process of …

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

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The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …

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