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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

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Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states....

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Dauth, Wolfgang; Hujer, Reinhard; Wolf, Katja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM...

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the … activity taking place in 2002, the middle of the period analyzed. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence …

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Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher; Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … importance of the global factor. In other words, there is evidence of business cycle convergence within each of these two groups …

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Sustainable regional growth and development in the creative knowledge economy : 50th ERSA Congress : 19 - 23 August 2010, Jönköping, Sweden

European Regional Science Association / Congress <50., …; … - 2010

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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Rioja, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has found that financial development increases economic growth, increases the income of the poor, and...

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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...

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