The study aims to explain intra- and inter-regional mobility in the UK between 2004 and 2014, by examining the role played by regional wage differentials, and individual- and region-specific characteristics. We use a two-stage model: first, we generate individual predicted regional wage...

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...