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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161716
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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina
Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837272
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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Electoral externalities in federations : evidence from German opinion polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017 - This version: February 20, 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615805
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Federalism and innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises : empirical evidence in Europe
Becker, Lasse; Bizer, Kilian - 2015
Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519879
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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496890
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Can courts make federalism work? : a game theory approach to court-induced compliance and defection in federal systems
Sala, Gemma - In: Economies : open access journal 2 (2014) 4, pp. 193-217
Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend … may not enforce compliance with federalism. It argues that politicians of either level of government anticipate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458556
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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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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862030
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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443221