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This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...
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private benefits, the enduring weight of Canadian-style federalism mitigated the impact of interest groups, especially …
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-dependence in combination with a system of asymmetric federalism has led to a distinctively multi-jurisdictional model of corporate …
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This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two levels of government are involved in the provision of a...
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federal governments, and financed in capital markets. Markets can supplement federalism. A key advantage of debt markets is … are politicians up the federalism hierarchy. This paper examines the financial relationship and programs of the federal … combination of federalism and capital markets …
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This article assesses the current and likely impact of the Supreme Court's federalism cases on federal environmental … regulation. As a result of this assessment, the article seeks to make four points: (1) Thus far, the Supreme Court's federalism … the federalism cases makes it likely that the Supreme Court will revisit the constitutional limitations on the Spending …
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This is the introductory essay for the Economics of Federalism, a book edited by the authors and forthcoming in Edward … competitive federalism, stems from Tiebout's 1956 article. It focuses on the horizontal structure of federalism and examines … fiscal federalism, examines the vertical structure of federalism, or the division of public services and taxing power between …
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The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...
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The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...
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Federalism and international trade regulation are popular topics in the legal literature, but the intersection of these … of U.S. and Canadian federalism, and by considering the effect of these countries' federal structures on their …
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