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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233763
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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886147
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273184
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Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646288
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615433
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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...
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Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?
Webber, Douglas A.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure categories during the last two decades. We use institutional level panel data and a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976898
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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The … impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in terms of the sign, the …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078574
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Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?
Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969324