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of funds to the regions undermines the principle of territorial concentration. The empirical analysis shows that, due to … recommended in order to increase fund concentration and earmark resources more adequately to disadvantaged regions. …
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This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …
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income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …
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responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …
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Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature … designed to separate inequality aversion from risk aversion. In a set of laboratory experiments, subjects chose between two … alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight …
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The analysis of inequality is placed in the context of recent developments in economics and statistics. Prepared for …
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This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …
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Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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conducted for all regions of the group of 25 European Union countries (EU-25), including measures of R&D investment, proxies for …
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