We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the … US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf’s law. …

defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model that combines scale-independent urban growth (Gibrat’s law) with … than previous urban growth frameworks that predict a lognormal or a Pareto city size distribution (Zipf’s law). …

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … by 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …