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Spatial sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010
We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in higher house prices, this does not necessarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274949
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Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
Büchel, Konstantin; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698735
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Modeling Inter-Regional Patient Mobility: Does Distance Go Far Enough?
Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021
consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations …-type equation and show that our measure of accessibility performs better in explaining patient flows than bilateral distance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582061
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Modeling Inter-Regional Patient Mobility : Does Distance Go Far Enough?
Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021
consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations …-type equation and show that our measure of accessibility performs better in explaining patient flows than bilateral distance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233145
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264226
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Happiness, Economy and Institutions
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000
previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314838
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The Assignment and Division of the Tax Base in a System of Hierarchical Governments
Hoyt, William H. - 2016
Vertical externalities, changes in one level of government’s policies that affect the budget of another level of government, may lead to non-optimal government policies. These externalities are associated with tax bases that are shared or “co-occupied” by two levels of government. Here I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451436
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Residential mobility of the European elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274728
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Taxes in Cities
Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2014
Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398557
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State Tax Differentials, Cross-Border Commuting, and Commuting Times in Multi-State Metropolitan Areas
Agrawal, David; Hoyt, William H. - 2014
We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical model introduces a border into a model of an urban area and shows that differences in average tax rates distort commute times and interstate commutes. Empirically examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398650