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Eggert, Wolfgang - 2009

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 disproportionately skilled. The brain drain from the poor...

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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Which Communities Should Be Afraid of Mobility? The Effects of Agglomeration Economies on the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Local Taxes

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Sole-Olle, Albert - 2021

hypotheses, analyzing the combined effect of local business taxes and Marshallian AE on the intraregional location of employment …. In line with the theory, a municipality with stronger AE experiences lower (higher) tax effects if it is sufficiently …

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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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Are User Fees Really Regressive?

Economides, George - 2012

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...

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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source

Hanousek, Jan - 2008

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Institutional Reform and Depositors' Portfolio Choice -- Evidence from Censored Quantile Regressions

Berlemann, Michael - 2014

In this paper we study the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the extensive and the intensive margin. We therefore make use of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification and, based on savings bank customer data from German savings banks, study...

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When Does Inter-Jurisdictional Competition Engender a 'Race to the Bottom?' A Meta-Regression Analysis

Costa-Font, Joan - 2015

A growing literature documents the existence of strategic political reactions to public expenditure between rival jurisdictions. These interactions can potentially create a downward expenditure spiral (‘race to the bottom') or a rising expenditure spiral (‘race to the top'). However, in the...

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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms

Koskela, Erkki - 2008

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

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