data include gender indicators (mostly female-male gaps) in education, health and the labour market and show lack of … progress or even declines in gender equality in these periods of crises in the eight countries analyzed. Moreover, a control … group of countries is used as counterfactual, indicating better performance on gender equality and hence, a diverging trend …

This study aims to investigate the role of diversity (ethnic, linguistic and religious) and social inequality in … determining social cohesion. By using cross- country data, we have found that social inequality may be more important factor than … cope with the possible threat of diversity for social cohesion. By reducing social inequality, societies may mitigate the …

The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than … it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities …

continuation of this variety of capitalism is likely to result in excessive inequality and severe environmental degradation. The …

The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than … it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities …

Rapid economic growth involves significant changes in land use patterns. The paper uses the recent history of Chinese …. It argues that though land use change is an important underlying dimension of the massive structural transformation … fact. It does so by looking at arable land conversion in coastal provinces (from agriculture to industry or urban …