, and its positive effect on the development of Mexican municipalities found by Rodriguez-Pose and Palavicini-Corona (2013 … municipalities located in a Mexican state with a long presence of institutions and resulting mechanisms closer to citizens were … favourable effect in one of the studied municipalities than the other is due to differences in the functioning of their formal …

The paper uses the consolidation of municipalities brought about by the Fascist dictatorship in Italy during the 1920s …

-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show that highway access influences local employment outcomes in peripheral municipalities …We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the … within 10 km road distance. Improved accessibility decreases employment by 9%. These effects are driven by reduced commuter …

("sadovodstva") into regular settlements (municipalities) with all necessary infrustructure 6) development and financing a system of … Metropolitan Area, which includes a number of municipalities, located in Leningrad Oblast. …

investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … economies through job creation. Using monthly figures from the Spanish region of Catalonia's more than 900 municipalities, the … unemployment rates (as legally required by the policy), as well as a significant drop in crime rates. …

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

employment, low youth and female unemployment, flexibility, and a low share of the "working poor", all of which can beneficially … self-employment, and an excess of labor cost growth over productivity growth, all of which can threaten further economic …