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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper is a statistical evaluation of the 1997 enterprise zone program in France. We investigate whether the program increased the pace at which unemployed workers residing in targeted municipalities and surrounding areas find employment. The work relies on a two-stage analysis of...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labour Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire equilibrium may be inefficient, there are usually better …

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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent hobbies and to acquire hobby skills, and its implications...

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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and …

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Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

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Fiscal Federalism in Times of Crisis

Foremny, Dirk; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the subnational fiscal adjustment to the Great Recession in a sample of European countries. We find that there are important differences between unitary and federal countries. Subnational governments in federal states reacted to the Great Recession by running larger budget deficits...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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How to make the metropolitan area work? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

welfare-decreasing, and commuting from the suburbs to the central city is not wasteful. Thus, the institutional and economic …

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Russian Fiscal Federalism: Impact of Political and Fiscal (De)centralization

Alexeev, Michael; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The extent of political and fiscal centralization in Russia has experienced dramatic changes since the end of the Soviet era. The heavily centralized, both politically and economically, federal structures became dysfunctional and unstable until the introduction of the Budget and Tax Codes over...

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Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion

Besley, Timothy J.; Jensen, Anders; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies individual and social motives in tax evasion. We build a simple dynamic model that incorporates these motives and their interaction. The social motives underpin the role of norms and is the source of the dynamics that we study. Our empirical analysis exploits the adoption in...

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