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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 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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Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts

Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021

Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Dual Circulation and Population Mobility during the Pandemic in China

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang My; Yu, Lamont Bo - 2022

results show that except for some periods of intense mobility restrictions, relative to travel patterns in 2019, mobility in …

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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Pöge, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2022

shocks across the life cycle on labor market outcomes and major life decisions: human capital investment, mobility, family …

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Geographic Mobility over the Life-Cycle

Diaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …

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Taxation and Migration by the Super-Rich

Advani, Arun; Burgherr, David; Summers, Andy - 2023

Using administrative data on the globally connected super-rich in the UK, we study the effect of a large tax reform on migration behaviour. Prior to 2017, offshore investment returns for 'non-doms' – individuals tax-resident in the UK but with connections to other countries – were untaxed....

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How Do Firms Deal with the Risks of Employing Ex-prisoners?

Köllő, János; Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág; … - 2023

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate a large sample of past and future prisoners in Hungary, 2003-2011. We first compare their jobs, focusing on attributes that can reduce the penalty the employer must pay for a mistaken hiring decision. Second, we study if employers insure...

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