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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Patterns in State Funding of Public Higher Education: Demography, Ideology, Educational Attainment, and Trends

Glomm, Gerhard; Raghav, Manu - 2024

The affordability of public higher education and, by extension, public higher education funding, is an important concern to prospective students and their parents as well as to policymakers. Our study examines the allocation of constant dollar per-student state appropriations across four-year or...

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Do Elections Affect Immigration? Evidence From French Municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six...

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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages … find a negative effect of corporate taxation on wages: a 1 euro increase in tax liabilities yields a 77 cent decrease in …

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Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility

Guggenberger, Patrik; Kaul, Ashok; Kolmar, Martin - 2001

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor...

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...

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