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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has toppled much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside its heralded consumer benefits, trade has both significant...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending

Basso, Henrique S.; Costain, James - 2016

In a monetary union, the interaction between several governments and a single central bank is plagued by several sources of deficit bias, including common pool problems. Each government has strong preferences over local spending and taxation but suffers only part of the costs of union-wide...

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Public provision and local income tax competition

Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Janeba, Eckhard - 2004

paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …

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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment

Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019

This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the …-in-differences design, we exploit unique within-country variation in decentralization provided by the partial devolution of German job … centers in 2012. We find that decentralization reduces job placements by approximately 10%. Decentralized providers expand the …

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Vertical effects of fiscal rules : the Swiss experience

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

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Citizen preferences and the architecture of government

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...

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Employment in the public sector

Forni, Lorenzo; Giordano, Raffaela - 2003

This paper presents a model of wage-employment determination in private and public sectors, which allows us to analyze the effects of different institutional arrangements on labor market equilibria. In particular, it focuses on how different degrees of coordination in decision processes affect...

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