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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 fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516465
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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007
two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure spending can differ across regions. This assumption follows well … revenue and expenditure decisions is the optimal fiscal arrangement for the country when infrastructure spending productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451831
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The regional distribution of public employment : theory and evidence
Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - 2012
relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity … of European regions from 1995-2007, we find evidence that public employment is systematically higher in low productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534940
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The impact of local public services and geographical cost of living differences on poverty estimates
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2008
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755513
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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394598
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Bobos in paradise : urban politics and the new economy
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015
explain those developments by productivity is growth in the new economy, and by the differences in production processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348302
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Misalignment of productivity and wages across regions? : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2016
This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580809
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2008
accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735417
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007
accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577801
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What drives spatial clusters of entrepreneurship in China? : evidence from economic census data
Liang, Zheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737507