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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?

Davidoff, Ian; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...

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Crime and Mental Wellbeing

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime...

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Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target

Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share analysis has been used to estimate the impact of rising employment on relative income poverty. This...

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Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case

Marx, Ive; Vanhille, Josefine; Verbist, Gerlinde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies implemented in the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably in-work benefit schemes, are much...

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Lessons Learned from the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom

Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In the last few decades, urban renewal policies have taken firm root in many Western European countries. Underlying these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often neighborhoods with a large share of social housing. In...

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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact … unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed upon their voluntary return or deportation to Mexico, almost a …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

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

the two primary theoretical frameworks – Tiebout (1956) and models of interjurisdictional competition – used to explore …

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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...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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