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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration
Meier, Volker - 2006
This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779814
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Monetary Disunion : The Domestic Politics of Euroland
Streeck, Wolfgang - 2014
Regional disparities within the European Union have always been perceived as an impediment to monetary integration. This is why discussions on a joint currency, from their very beginning, were linked to compensatory payments in the form of regional policy payments. Structural assistance to poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043888
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Heterogeneity, vetoes and exit clauses in federal systems
Huysmans, Martijn - 2018
The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884402
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Nation Formation and Genetic Diversity
Desmet, Klaus; Le Breton, Michel; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2006
determining the likelihood of secession and unification. We provide empirical support for choosing genetic distances as a proxy of … cultural heterogeneity. By using data on genetic distances, we examine the stability of the current map of Europe and identify … the regions prone to secession and the countries that are more likely to merge. Our framework is further applied to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054107
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Between two unions : a legal appraisal of the Scotland's right to secession from the UK
Lulić, Mira; Muhvić, Davor - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602227
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Regional policy and the implementation of subsidiarity
Lóránd, Balázs - 2012
The aim of this study is to examine the regional policy and the governance model of Lombardy and to highlight the most important factors of its success and to address the relevant risks. The main source of success of Lombardy was the implementation of the subsidiarity principle in the area of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517965
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Climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions in European cities : insights from responses to the CDP cities program
Groth, Markus; Brück, Maria; Oberascher, Teresa - 2015
Cities, home to more than half of the world’s population and important economic hubs, are vulnerable to climate change and worthy to protect. To address these challenges, implementing adaptation measures is inevitable. The paper provides insights into climate change related risks,...
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Reflections on Cluster Policies
Brakman, Steven - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098963
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The European Quality of Government Index : Summary of 2013 Data, Sensitivity Analysis and Final Results
Charron, Nicholas - 2013
This paper presents the latest version of the European Quality of Government Index (‘EQI'). The data builds on previously published data from 2010 (Charron, Lapuente and Rothstein 2013; Charron, Dijkstra and Lapuente 2013). Based on the largest regionally-focused survey to date, collected in the...
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On the Economic Base of the European City
Calafati, Antonio - 2015
European cities' growth rates were strikingly different in the decades 1950-1990, during the long phase of macro-economic expansion and controlled institutional evolution ensured by the construction of the European. To the extent that most cities were anyway following a development trajectory...
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