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On the Impact of State and Local Government Policies on Human Migration: A Log-Linear Analysis

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1974

This study investigates the impact of certain state and local government policies on 1960-70 migration according to …

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A Note on Nonwhite Migration, Welfare Levels, and the Political Process

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1975

This empirical note finds that nonwhite migration is positively and significantly affected by welfare levels and that … welfare levels in turn are positively and significantly affected by nonwhite migration. Thus, this two stage least squares … analysis of 1960-1970 net interstate migration lends support to the hypothesis that while nonwhite families are attracted for …

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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance

Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

secession?”, and “Can development policies can be designed in a way that they don’t unwillingly trigger secession as a side … effect?”. Using a framework frequently applied in the literature on secession, it turns out (a) that under certain conditions … a secession threat can be used by a minority region to gain a higher level of decentralization than the larger part of …

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Social diversification, injustices, and Pareto optimality with non-binary preferences

Berdellima, Arian; Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We prove the existence of a Pareto optimal state of a finite society that has socially differentiated persons, each with non-binary personal preferences that quasi-order a finite set of alternatives. Everybody engages in a volitional act of choice by maximization of non-binary preferences. As a...

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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...

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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...

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Defining and measuring decentralisation: a critical review

Torrisi, Gianpiero; Pike, Andy; Tomaney, John; Tselios, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of terms belonging to the semantic field of state restructuring. The analysis aims to critically reviewing different terms focusing the attention both to the definitional and to the measurement sides. Different “types of decentralisation” are...

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Assessing the Mumbai metropolitan region: a governance perspective

Pethe, Abhay; Gandhi, Sahil; Tandel, Vaidehi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper written from a governance perspective takes the position that a useful governance perspective must be informed by the socio-economic-cultural milieu and in the specific Indian context must sit on a tripod of ‘political reality’, ‘state of decentralization’ and ‘basic economic...

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Re-imagining Federalism in India: Exploring the Frontiers of Collaborative Federal Architecture

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper argues that in response to contemporary challenges, the federal governance structure in India requires fine-tuning. A directional shift is required from a cooperative model to a collaborative model of federal governance in view of various endogenous and exogenous imperatives of...

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Fiscal Decentralization - a Survey of the Empirical Literature

Reingewertz, Yaniv - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We survey the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of shifting fiscal responsibilities to sub national governments. We suggest several conclusions: First, there are large disagreements regarding the influence of FD on the size of...

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