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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 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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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2014

Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...

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Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court

Mindock, Maxwell R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2019

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...

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Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects among Local Labour Markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti; Liang, Xuan - 2019

We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...

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Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques - 2019

The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis a decade later. Research...

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Austria

Dauth, Wolfgang; Hujer, Reinhard; Wolf, Katja - 2010

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM...

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It's the Way People Move! Labour Migration as an Adjustment Device in Russia

Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020

This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states … convergence, but rather divergence across Russian regions. …

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