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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273182
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
ineffective, and may have given the government an incentive to deregulate its subsequent labor market policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279307
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
compute direct effects of the policy intervention as well as the effects mediated through non-price channels such as changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014663
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Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata
Ramos, Raul; Duque, Juan Carlos; Nieto, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
differential is attributable to family characteristics as opposed to those of the school. From a policy perspective, our evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548158
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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the start of the policy). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649830
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Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment … interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood demographics and neighborhood housing stock. Urban economic theory posits … housing prices respond to the Empowerment Zone policy intervention. Changes in the other dimensions of neighborhood quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762160
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Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive resources. The intertemporal adjustments for both resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506887
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … behind in terms of both economic growth and participation in international trade. Policy implications are drawn from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611315
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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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Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Monras, Joan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migration rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168441