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We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
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We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
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In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
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Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK and Austria. Between 2004 and 2009, no cases found when unemployment and … dependent informality rates in a country went up together, suggesting that work without contract is pro-cyclical in Europe … equal. In Southern and Western Europe, immigrants from CEE and FSU feature the highest dependent informality rate, whilst in …
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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older …, given that Europe faces rising unemployment, growing numbers of unassimilated migrants, and more pensioners - and all in the … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe …
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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. Weexploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to supportmanufacturing jobs...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110849
-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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