Tiebout revisited: redrawing jurisdictional boundaries

Article Abstract:

A study has been conducted to investigate why a large percentage of central city voters supported a deannexation proposal, despite the possibility of suffering worse consequences if the proposal is approved. The fixing of jurisdictional boundaries has been considered as one of the viable basis for establishing local tax collection schemes. A measurement of potential gains to homeowners for a particular attempted deannexation has been undertaken to relate it to observed voting patterns on the required municipal deannexation referendum. Findings indicate that heterogeneity implies the presence of cross-subsidies resulting from the combination of relative spatial uniformity in the provision of local public sector goods and local property taxes that increase with property value.

Public Finance Activities, Property Taxes, Laws, regulations and rules, Land value taxation, Annexation (Municipal government)

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The flight to the suburbs of population and employment, 1960-1970

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Econometric suburbanization model analyzes shift of population (by income and race) and employment in 106 large metropolitan areas. Differential mobility of wealthy and whites leaves poor and nonwhites in central cities. "Class flight" found to be self-reinforcing; "white flight" not confirmed. Tax-rate differences, not public-service spending, prompt suburban flight. Population and employment locale found to be symbiotic.

Colleges and universities, Social aspects, Models, Employment, Suburban life, Demography, Residential mobility, Population transfers, Migration, Internal, Internal migration

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Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters: German city growth and the WWII shock

Article Abstract:

A study examines factor responsible for the growth of German cities after World War II.

Germany, Company growth, German history, 1945-1990

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