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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...
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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision : Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096145
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2012
a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax …
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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
Firpo, Sergio - 2014
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...
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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...
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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 sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the years of 1994 to 2009, we address the determinants of local investment expenditures in public...
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126916
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …
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