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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties

Hammond, George W. - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …

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College Openings and Local Economic Development

Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022

We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...

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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...

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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010

Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...

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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany

Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...

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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong - 2012

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China

Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

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