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Historical Origins of Schooling: The Role of Democracy and Political Decentralization [PDF]

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Why does schooling attainment vary widely across countries? Why are differences in schooling attainment highly persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local democracy ...
Francisco Gallego
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The evolution of national social dialogue in Europe under the single market, 1992-2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper examines the evolution of national social dialogue (bipartite wage bargaining) across European countries. Several commentators in the 1990s expected the dismantling of national social dialogue institutions.
Kornelakis, Andreas
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons [PDF]

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Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the productive efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between ...
Ben Lockwood, Iwan Barankay
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Revisiting the “Decentralization Theorem” – On the Role of Externalities [PDF]

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The “Decentralization Theorem” (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of consumption spillovers in evaluating the merits of (de)centralization. Unlike the general prediction, a higher degree of spillovers may
Marko Köthenbürger
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Does fiscal decentralization improve health outcomes? - evidence from a cross-country analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
Decentralization of fiscal responsibilities has emerged as a primary objective on the agendas of national governments, and international organizations alike. Yet there is little empirical evidence on the potential benefits of this intervention.
Picazo, Oscar F.   +2 more
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Fiscal Descentralization in Eastern Europe: Trends and Selected Issues

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2012
The article attempts to provide an overview of the fiscal decentralization process in emerging market economies in Eastern Europe in the last 20 years.
Aleksander ARISTOVNIK
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