This review of recent research in the general areas of migration and residential mobility
grew out of seminars presented at the Free University during the winter term of 1981. Those …

The literature on internal labour migration is surveyed using a fourfold taxonomic scheme.
The potential migrant, as presented in the existing literature, can be viewed as a supplier of …

First published in 1984. This book brings together and develops the economic theory
relating to the design and operation of systems of non-central government—positing major …

The consumer-voter may be viewed as picking that community which best satisfies his
preference pattern for public goods. At the central level the preferences of the consumer …

This paper examines the extent to which differences in welfare generosity across states
leads to interstate migration. Using microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of …

The relationship between welfare benefit levels and the residential choices of the poor
raises two issues for federalism in the United States. Do state benefit levels affect the …

In this article we survey common themes in recent migration research and comment on the
actual and potential contribution of regional science to this literature. There has been a …

In this fully revised second edition of a wellregarded and popular text, Patrick McNutt
presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public …

In recent times not only have traditional areas of public economics such as taxation, public
expenditure, public sector pricing, benefit cost analysis, and fiscal federalism thrown up new …

The elderly's unique economic situation makes some government expenditure and taxation
policies more attractive than others and also makes them potentially quite mobile. This …