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Roller, Marcus; Schmidheiny, Kurt - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In fiscally centralised countries with a unique country-wide income tax schedule, it is straightforward to quantify the degree of progressivity. In fiscally decentralised countries with varying local tax schedules, however, this is not the case. In these countries, the effective tax...

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

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Ranking German regions using interregional migration - What does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?

Wirth, Benjamin - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...

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Not always for richer or poorer: The effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Battu, Harminder; Brown, Heather; Costa-Gomes, Miguel - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Immigration in times of crisis: to go or to stay?

Ródenas, Carmen; Martí, Monica; Kostova, Mirostava - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Spain has become a country of immigration very fast and in an unusual way. At the beginning of the year 2000 …. Considering its population size, Spain was the country which received the highest annual average net inflow of about 528 … were of working age and most of them came from low income countries-, and the GDP and employment growth in Spain. In 2012 …

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Location choices of highly-educated foreign workers: the importance of urban amenities

Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Current developed economies' growth becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of innovation and skill-intensive industries. Therefore, the ability of cities to attract skilled or highly-educated individuals becomes more and more important for their growth and economic development. In...

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Cross-border delivery of public services: How useful are EGTCs?

Jaansoo, Annika; Groenendijk, Nico - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) is a European legal instrument designed to facilitate and promote cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation. It was introduced in 2006 to enable public authorities of various Member States to team up and deliver joint...

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New challenges for European regions and urban areas in a globalised world : 51st ERSA Congress : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International : 37th Spa...

European Regional Science Association / Congress <51., …; … - 2011

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The urban wage growth premium: evidence from British cities.

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The urban economics literature provides ample evidence of an urban wage premium: wages are higher in larger urban areas. This paper addresses three central issues of the urban wage premium about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability...

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