analyze the effects of different institutional settings for inter-municipal cooperation on voter turnout. We use data from … the voter turnout. -- Voter turnout ; local institutions ; inter-municipal cooperation …

political sphere is related to government performance – in terms of its efficiency – using a broad panel of German … municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on (technical) efficiency. Crucially, however …, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly (positively) affected by local governments? fiscal …

a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg). First, we consider local government cost efficiency …. This indicates that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency despite a homogeneous institutional setting, leaving at … than smaller ones, supporting a case for boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation …

Bridging the gap between the literatures on industrial change and human capital externalities we investigate the … industrial change, while human capital externalities arise first and foremost in dynamic labor markets. On the firm level, we … find human capital externalities to accrue predominantly to growing firms which benefit from sharing, matching, and …

panel data it shows that regional wage differentials are partly attributable to localized human capital externalities … as instrumental variables, the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel … human capital externalities are more pronounced in manufacturing than in the service sector. We find indication that highly …

results show no support for external returns to education, except for skilled workers. -- Human capital externalities ; social …

whether human capital externalities arise from a higher job matching efficiency in skilled regions. Using two samples of …. Taken together, these findings suggest that human capital externalities partly arise because workers in skilled regions have … jobs. -- Human Capital Externalities ; Job Matching …

externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …. An analysis by sector reveals that human capital externalities are more pronounced in manufacturing than in the service …