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Optimal taxation under regional inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, J. Malte - 2020

We study how regional productivity differences and labor mobility shape optimal Mirrleesian tax-transfer schemes. When tax schedules are not allowed to differ across regions, productivity-enhancing interregional migration exerts a downward pressure on optimal marginal tax rates. When regionally...

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Optimal taxation under regional inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, J. Malte - 2019

Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility shape optimal redistribution. We propose the use of delayed optimal-control techniques to obtain optimal tax formulae with...

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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?

Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022

's economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West … turned from an advantage for economic development to a burden after World War II. The dominant position of heavy industry … north-south gap in economic development. …

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Export induced spatial divergence

Casper, Jonas; Li, Lei; Luo, Jinfeng - 2023 - This version: October 2023

How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and intra-city spatial disparities by reinforcing initially...

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Trends toward the concentration of economic activity and uneven spatial development of Russia

Bufetova, Anna - 2016

distribution of economic activity and further increase of regional economic development disparities. All the approaches to the … regional development. We study the evolution of spatial distribution of economic activity and convergence process among regions … with an average level of development is relatively small. Regional conditioning and spatial Markov chain clearly indicate …

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015

.e., the determinants of the convergence process. We find evidence for an N-shaped relationship between development and … regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

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Regional inequality and internal conflict : conference paper

Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: January 2013

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal conflicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level regional...

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015

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Spatial patterns and size distributions of cities

Hsu, Wen-Tai; Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2014

City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...

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The spatial distribution of human capital : can it really be explained by regional differences in market access?

Karahasan, Burhan Can; López-Bazo, Enrique - 2011

This paper checks for the robustness of the estimate of the impact of market access on the regional variability of human capital, derived from the NEG literature. The hypothesis is that the estimate of the coefficient of the measure of market access is actually capturing the effect of regional...

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