Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

This Paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

This paper provides microlevel evidence of how past institutions impact present economic outcomes. It looks at the impact of colonial land tenure institutions on local governance and education outcomes in northern India. Outcomes are worse in villages that belong to areas with a history of...

This paper examines the role of rural regions in the economic transformation of Korea. The analysis at regional level reveals that, while having experiencing continued urbanisation and rapid demographic shift of aging and depopulation, the Korean rural areas performs well in terms of...

A long debate among European Commission and Member States brought to the final approval of the third package on energy (June 2009). This work firstly introduces an overview of the principal acts and positions of the major players involved in the decision making process of the third package....

Ten years after the liberalization of the electricity and gas market in Italy it is possible to draw an evaluation of the achievements. The three key objectives of the single market mentioned in the original proposal of the European Commission have been achieved differently in the power market...

I principali drivers della diffusione prevista di auto elettriche vanno individuati nello sforzo dell’industria automobilistica di creare nuovi spazi nei mercati ormai saturi (lato dell’offerta), e nelle attuali politiche di mitigazione del clima nel settore dei trasporti, che si sono finora...

Paese. Oggi questo non è più vero: non è più possibile trattare di energia e ambiente senza occuparsi di industria e sviluppo. Tre eventi hanno modificato drasticamente la situazione: l’ingresso dell’Italia nell’Euro nel 1999, l’ingresso della Cina nella World Trade Organization...

I Governi italiani hanno spesso proposto misure di politica energetica per il Paese, sebbene raramente si siano avuti effetti significativi. Recentemente il Governo italiano ha auspicato un passaggio dal concetto di politica e quello di "strategia energetica nazionale", i cui contenuti e metodi...