Oded Izraeli

Oakland University · Department of Economics

This paper first investigates a relationship between economic growth and income inequality using U.S. states data, a state cost-of-living deflator, and nonlinearity. It then explores the distribution of income gains among different income groups. We find that the impact of inequality on growth is nonlinear. Lowering inequality or increasing it subs...

This paper examines the relationship between state party politics and the economic performance of the state over six four-year periods covering the years 1978 to 2002. Novel features include that the study: examines the role of party control in a panel; it examines the effects of political competitiveness; measures effects not only on income variab...

The Philips-curve relatoinship is tested on a body of data disaggregated in individual SMSA level. The sample is the most comprehensive ever utilized for this purpose. Section 2 examines the nature of the inter-SMSA dispersions in the relevant labor-market variables. In Section 3 PC relationships are estimated for each of the local markets. Section...

The focus of this study is the examination of the interstate differences in per capita state and local revenues. On one side free competition among states is supposed to keep the interstate differences in per capita state and local revenues at a minimum level. On the other side, the interstate differences in variables like income and taste of consu...

TRA86 removed the deductibility of state and local sales taxes from U.S. personal income taxes. This effectively increased the price to state governments of sales tax revenue relative to income tax revenues. This implies that state reliance on income taxes relative to sales taxes should have increased after TRA86 was implemented. Leading public fin...

This paper considers the problem of regional allocation of government funds in a two-region, two-good economy in which production of each good requires labor, capital, and a local public good. Changes in regional allocation of federal expenditures and public services are found to significantly impact the national economy in addition to the regional...

This paper examines cross-state differences in the responsiveness of per capita state and local revenues to changes in factors that determine these revenues. Our model proceeds from two intuitive points of departure. First, because of differing tastes and attitudes among the population toward public goods and services, states should respond differe...

Most empirical studies of the U.S. wage-price relationship in the pre-fuel crisis period found wages systematically lagging prices, even in the long run. This finding was considered to be problematical or disturbing since it contradicts standard expectations generated by the competition model. It is here hypothesized that the empirical findings are...

It is well known that great variations in money wages and prices can exist within a country even where these differentials are widely known and there is no legal barrier to mobility. This article investigates the possibility that the differential availability or quality of environmental goods (e.g. climate, clean air, public services) may be an exp...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1973. Microfilm.