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Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions (2006)

Lall, Somik V. [Verfasser] ; Timmins, Christopher [Sonstige] ; World Bank

[Washington, D.C] : World Bank

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3843

Content: "Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake a direct evaluation of the most prominent fiscal incentive policy in Brazil, the Fundos Constitucionais de Financiamento (Constitutional Funds). In doing so, they exploit valuable features of the Brazilian Ministry of Labor's RAIS data set to address two important elements of firm location decisions that have the potential to bias an assessment of the funds: (1) firm "family structure" (in particular, proximity to headquarters for vertically integrated firms), and (2) unobserved spatial heterogeneity (with the potential to confound the effects of the funds). The authors find that the pull of firm headquarters is very strong relative to the constitutional funds for vertically integrated firms, but that, with nonparametric controls for time invariant spatial heterogeneity, the funds provide significant incentives for firms in many of the targeted industries. "--World Bank web site

Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 2/7/2006

Additional Edition: Lall, Somik V Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions

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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility (2009)

Lall, Somik V. ; Timmins, Christopher ; Yu, Shouyue ; [et al.]

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4843

Content: "How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities - policies that try to offset these forces to encourage balanced economic growth have largely been unsuccessful. However, policies that help people get closer to economic density have improved individual welfare. In this paper, the authors examine the migration decisions of working-age Brazilians and find that the pull of higher wages in leading regions has a strong influence on the decision to migrate. However, many people are also "pushed" to migrate, starved of access to basic public services such as clean water and sanitation in their hometowns. Although migration is welfare-improving for these individuals, the economy may end up worse off as these migrants are more likely to add to congestion costs in cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits. Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly improve welfare as well as reduce the type of migration motivated by the search for life-supporting basic services. "--World Bank web site

Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009 , Also available in print.

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DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4843

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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility (2009)

Lall, Somik V. ; Timmins, Christopher. ; Yu, Shouyue. ; [et al.]

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper ; 4843

Content: "How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities - policies that try to offset these forces to encourage balanced economic growth have largely been unsuccessful. However, policies that help people get closer to economic density have improved individual welfare. In this paper, the authors examine the migration decisions of working-age Brazilians and find that the pull of higher wages in leading regions has a strong influence on the decision to migrate. However, many people are also "pushed" to migrate, starved of access to basic public services such as clean water and sanitation in their hometowns. Although migration is welfare-improving for these individuals, the economy may end up worse off as these migrants are more likely to add to congestion costs in cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits. Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly improve welfare as well as reduce the type of migration motivated by the search for life-supporting basic services. "--World Bank web site.

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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility (2009)

Lall, Somik V. [Verfasser] ; Timmins, Christopher ; Yu, Shouyue ; [et al.]

[Washington, D.C] : World Bank

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4843

Content: "How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities - policies that try to offset these forces to encourage balanced economic growth have largely been unsuccessful. However, policies that help people get closer to economic density have improved individual welfare. In this paper, the authors examine the migration decisions of working-age Brazilians and find that the pull of higher wages in leading regions has a strong influence on the decision to migrate. However, many people are also "pushed" to migrate, starved of access to basic public services such as clean water and sanitation in their hometowns. Although migration is welfare-improving for these individuals, the economy may end up worse off as these migrants are more likely to add to congestion costs in cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits. Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly improve welfare as well as reduce the type of migration motivated by the search for life-supporting basic services. "--World Bank web site

Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009

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Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions (2006)

Lall, Somik V. ; Timmins, Christopher ; World Bank

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3843

Content: "Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake a direct evaluation of the most prominent fiscal incentive policy in Brazil, the Fundos Constitucionais de Financiamento (Constitutional Funds). In doing so, they exploit valuable features of the Brazilian Ministry of Labor's RAIS data set to address two important elements of firm location decisions that have the potential to bias an assessment of the funds: (1) firm "family structure" (in particular, proximity to headquarters for vertically integrated firms), and (2) unobserved spatial heterogeneity (with the potential to confound the effects of the funds). The authors find that the pull of firm headquarters is very strong relative to the constitutional funds for vertically integrated firms, but that, with nonparametric controls for time invariant spatial heterogeneity, the funds provide significant incentives for firms in many of the targeted industries. "--World Bank web site

Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 2/7/2006 , Also available in print.

Additional Edition: Lall, Somik V Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions

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Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions / (2006)

Lall, Somik V. ; Timmins, Christopher. ; World Bank.

[Washington, D.C. :World Bank,

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Series Statement: Policy research working paper ; 3843

Content: "Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake a direct evaluation of the most prominent fiscal incentive policy in Brazil, the Fundos Constitucionais de Financiamento (Constitutional Funds). In doing so, they exploit valuable features of the Brazilian Ministry of Labor's RAIS data set to address two important elements of firm location decisions that have the potential to bias an assessment of the funds: (1) firm "family structure" (in particular, proximity to headquarters for vertically integrated firms), and (2) unobserved spatial heterogeneity (with the potential to confound the effects of the funds). The authors find that the pull of firm headquarters is very strong relative to the constitutional funds for vertically integrated firms, but that, with nonparametric controls for time invariant spatial heterogeneity, the funds provide significant incentives for firms in many of the targeted industries. "--World Bank web site.

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Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions (2006)

Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de ; Lall, Somik V. 1972- ; Timmins, Christopher

Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Infrastructure and Environment Team

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Format: 47 S. , graph. Darst.

Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3843

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Language: English

Keywords: Arbeitspapier ; Graue Literatur

Author information: Lall, Somik V. 1972-

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