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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained econd-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851309
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
Kessing, Sebastian G.; Strozzi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535337
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
Kessing, Sebastian G.; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541273
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Regional Wage Disparities in Europe: What role for Market Access?
López-Rodríguez, López-Rodríguez , Jesús; Faíña, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 11, pp. 5-23
This paper uses a New Economic Geography model to test for wagedisparities in the European Union. We derive and estimate an econometric specificationrelating wages to a distance weighted sum of regional GDP’s. The empirical estimationsof the model were carried out for a sample of 160 NUTS2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992134
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The impact of optimal tariffs and taxes on agglomeration
Ross, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957311
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Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK
Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
environment in different locations. In line with theory, we find that better access to export markets and intermediate goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928631
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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential
BRÜLHART, Marius; CROZET, Matthieu; KOENIG, Pamina - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2004
We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292708
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Trade Liberalization and Location: Empirical Evidence for Mexican Manufacturing Industries
Jordaan, Jacob A.; Sanchez-Reaza, Javier - In: The Review of Regional Studies 36 (2006) 3, pp. 279-303
In this paper, we provide evidence based on New Economic Geography Models and estimate the statistical effects of second nature advantages to shed some light on the locational transformation of the manufacturing sector in Mexico. Changes in regional industry shares and regional wages during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547669
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Spatial Effects of European Integration: Do Border Regions Benefit above Average?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - In: The Review of Regional Studies 36 (2006) 3, pp. 254-78
A basic result of new economic geography (NEG) models is that the proximity to consumer markets impacts wages and employment within regions. The ongoing process of European integration, being targeted on the reduction of barriers to trade and factor mobility, has presumably changed relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547740
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Trade and Spatial Growth: the Nexus that was not missing
Abeyratne, Sirimal; Cooray, Nawalage S. - Graduate School of International Relations, … - 2014
push spatial growth away from trade theory. It is the rapid change in the shape of the world economy led by trade … international economics. Spatial growth within trade analyses was, however, not bizarre to trade theory. Bertil Ohlin as well as his … teacher, Eli Heckscher ? the coauthors of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory of comparative advantage ? did not miss the point that …
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