shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this …

This paper analyzes, within a regional growth model, the impact of productive governmental policy and integration on … the spatial distribution of economic activity. Integration is understood as enhancing territorial cooperation between the … which regional road networks are connected. Both integration and the characteristics of the public input crucially affect …

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …

This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …

-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …