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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer Ã¢â ¬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark Martin - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M. - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012

exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …

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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining : The Case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2021

The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...

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