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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

the effects of the decentralization of policy decisions such as taxes, expenditures, environmental standards, etc. The …

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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …

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European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...

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Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Rotte, Ralph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

This paper gives a short synoptical overview of the most important elements of current anti-immigration policy in Germany. Based on the hypothesis that its primary aim is exclusion of new migrants, the measures taken within the framework of a groupwise nationally oriented but internationally...

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European Asylum Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions

Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drèze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...

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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Caliendo, Marco; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions’ reaction functions for different...

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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