Quelques effets de la décentralisation sur les structures urbaines et le système éducatif

Roland Benabou

Revue Économique, 1995, vol. 46, issue 3, 595-604

Abstract: [fre] Cet article analyse certains enjeux importants de la décentralisation : polarisa­tion ville-banlieues, apparition de ghettos, et effets induits sur le système éducatif et la productivité. À la lumière de travaux récents sur la structure socio-économi­que des agglomérations urbaines et le rôle des interactions locales dans l'accumulation du capital humain, nous montrons que la décentralisation a géné­ralement des effets adverses du point de vue de l'inégalité, sans pour autant garantir un gain d'efficacité. [eng] This paper analyzes a number of important issues raised by the general movement towards decentralization of public services : city-suburb polarization, emergence of ghettos, impact on the education system and on productivity. Using recent work on local human capital spillovers and the socioeconomic structure of urban agglomerations, we show that decentralization not only tends to exarcerbate inequality, but need not even promote greater efficiency.

Date: 1995
Note: DOI:10.3406/reco.1995.409667
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