Government Effectiveness and Regional Variation in Informal Employment

Regional Variation in Informal Employment: Skills, Norms, and Governance*

Informal economic activity across countries has been studied thoroughly in the empirical literature, but little research addresses the sources of variation in informality on the sub-national level. This paper analyzes reasons for regional variation in informal employment. It develops a theoretical model, which predicts that worker skill endowment, quality of local governance, and social norms a...

The Effectiveness of Government Expenditures during Crisis: Evidence from Regional Government Spending in Japan 1990-2000

We use a rich dataset of regional government expenditures for Japan during the 1990-2000 period to estimate from within-prefecture variation the multiplier of government investment and government consumption expenditures. Our main finding is that government spending did not have multipliers effects that are on average larger than one. Government investment had a positive and significant effect ...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Employment and social protectionin the informal sector

Regional Employment Change

In this thesis, I study how routinization—the process of codifying and automating job tasks—influences regional employment change. I examine two questions. First, does routinization drive employment change in US metropolitan areas after controlling for occupation and industry mix? Second, does overall employment change occur more strongly through occupational change than industry change across ...