This paper examines how municipal taxes respond to the local impact of a labor market shock. The analysis exploits a … commuting policy that liberalized cross-border labor markets between Switzerland and the EU. The reform was implemented at a …. Identification rests on exogenous regional variation in treatment intensities based on commuting times. The results show that …

commuting cost to work in either of the two jurisdictions. In each jurisdiction, a fixed public budget must be financed with a …

agglomeration externalities which may give rise to a core-periphery pattern. The main implications of the analysis are: First, the … stronger agglomeration externalities of high-skilled employment are, the greater the differences between education subsidies …

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have …