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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024
This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education …
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Voting on urban land development
Wrede, Matthias - 2019 - This version: December 2019
In this paper, we analyze several local referendums on land development and land-use regulation in the City of Erlangen (Germany) in the period between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for the development of land, we employ a two-way...
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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries
Rehme, Günther - 2002
In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …
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Trade, education, and income inequality
Brückner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020
education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. … population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is associated with a significant increase in income inequality. As …
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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2017 - This version: September 7th, 2017
Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income, and hence produce a "middle-class squeeze". However, there is limited empirical evidence testing the latter. This paper aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis...
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Local public good provision, municipal consolidation, and national transfers
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Staal, Klaas (contributor) - 2007
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Fiscal federalism and electoral accountability
Aidt, Toke; Dutta, Jayasri - 2010
We study the efficient allocation of spending and taxation authority in a federation in which federal politicians are exposed to electoral uncertainty. We show that centralization may, but need not, result in a loss of electoral accountability. We identify an important asymmetry between positive...
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Free-riding or internalizing? : an opportunistic view on decentralization versus centralization
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - 2011
comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … production cost of the public good in each region, a different trade-off - from the traditional and new theory of fiscal …
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Why cities should not be subsidized
Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2001
The paper deals with the question of whether fiscal transfers re-ceived by cities can be justified by a higher cost of producing publicly provided goods. In the model, increasing the population density implies both a higher output per capita due to agglomeration economies and a higher cost of...
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