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Infrastructure, institutions and identity - Determinants of regional development: Empirical evidence from Germany

Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020

Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...

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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison

Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021

A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

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Nudges to increase completion of welfare applications: Experimental evidence from Michigan

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Oberlee, Dallas; Pepin, Gabrielle - 2020

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to very-low-income families with children. Application procedures to receive TANF benefits, however, often involve substantial transaction costs likely to reduce take-up. We estimate, through a randomized...

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Effects of work requirements on welfare migration

Edmark, Karin - 2007

This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...

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Obrigações futuras com a previdência dos servidores públicos municipais: Análise longitudinal

Schettini, Bernardo Patta - 2017

This paper calculates indexes for the funding levels of municipal retirement systems in Brazil using actuarial valuations and budget reports aiming to test hypotheses regarding the reasons which have driven underfunding in the past years notwithstanding the 1998 and 2003 reforms and the greater...

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Natural disasters, public spending, and creative destruction: A case study of the Philippines

Jha, Shikha; Martinez, Arturo; Quising, Pilipinas; … - 2018

Typhoons, floods, and other weather-related shocks can inflict suffering on local populations and create life-threatening conditions for the poor. Yet, natural disasters also present a development opportunity to upgrade capital stock, adopt new technologies, enhance the risk-resiliency of...

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Does good local governance improve subjective well-being?

Cárcaba, Ana; Arrondo, Rubén; González Fidalgo, Eduardo - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-10

The goal of this research is to examine the effects of good management of local governments on individual subjective well-being (SWB). We define three dimensions of good governance at the municipal level: accountability, government efficiency and control of corruption. We use a large survey of...

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Institutions promoting budgetary discipline: evidence from Swedish municipalities

Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria - 2012

budget institutions and conflicts of interest within the Swedish municipalities. Our estimations suggest that institutions …. The fiscal surplus is higher in municipalities that have centralized their budget process to some degree, and where local … differ between municipalities with different degrees of conflicts of interests, calling for further research to understand …

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How political, spatial, and administrative changes shape the local level: Evidence from municipalities

Dörr, Luisa - 2022

outcomes. Chapter 3 examines how highway access affects commuting and employment in connected municipalities. Chapter 4 …

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Wie das Hochschulfreiheitsgesetz Hochschulen noch freier machen könnte

Dilger, Alexander - 2014

Das Hochschulfreiheitsgesetz von Nordrhein-Westfalen aus dem Jahr 2006 ist immer noch in Kraft, auch wenn es demnächst durch ein viel restriktiveres Hochschulzukunftsgesetz ersetzt werden soll. Der wesentliche Anspruch war die Stärkung der Freiheit bzw. Autonomie von Hochschulen durch...

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