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Local employment multiplier : evidence from relocation of public-sector entities in South Korea

Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023

We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment position increases private sector employment by one...

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Land use and fiscal competition

Büttner, Thiess - 2021

This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....

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The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity : evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

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A spatial perspective on European integration : heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the single market and the Brexit

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1 … percent causing an estimated migration of about 8 million individuals to the European core. This implies that the dismantling …

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Highways, market access, and spatial sorting

Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017

We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...

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Second-hand gentrification : theory and evidence from high-speed rail extensions

Loumeau, Gabriel; Russo, Antonio - 2022

reducing the cost of intercity commuting, the HSR connection induces migration by skilled individuals towards the secondary …

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Land use regulations, migration and rising house price dispersion in the U.S.

Cun, Wukuang; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2018

determined with migration flows. Agents optimize period-by-period and decide whether to remain where they are or migrate to a new … location at the start of each period. The gain from migration depends on the differences in incomes, housing and migration … costs. The agent's optimal location choice and the resultant migration process is shown to be Markovian with the transition …

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Migration, local fiscal variables and local economic conditions

Carlsen, Fredrik - 2001

on migration plans become weaker when amenity variables are included, indicating that capitalization of amenities cannot … explain weak effects of local economic conditions on migration in Europe. …

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Migrating extremists

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2016 - This version: February 25, 2016

-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2003

locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a … are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A …

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