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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007
composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451831
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan … counties. -- Fiscal decentralization ; metropolitan ; nonmetropolitan ; population ; employment ; income ; spatial econometrics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919883
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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe : 1988 - 2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721312
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Local labor market conditions and crime : evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2016
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we find that labor market conditions have a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449773
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
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 difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692
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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516465
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Spatial decentralization and program evaluation : theory and an example from Indonesia
Pitt, Mark Martin; Menon, Nidhiya - 2010
census data. The results offer support to the identification strategy proposed. -- spatial decentralization, program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011585
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How do very open economies absorb large immigration flows? : recent evidence from Spanish regions
González, Libertad (contributor);  … - 2008
In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652690
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Trade liberalization and local labor markets in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287217