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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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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods : Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

Varady, David P. - 2015

Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the...

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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

May, Nils - 2015

Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer Ã¢â ¬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark Martin - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M. - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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