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Spatial and Social Mobility
Borck, Rainald - 2016
income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative … and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999796
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693467
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075985
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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2021
, growth and social mobility than under political regimes supported by the rich; pre-tax inequality is greater in the former …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317185
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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136696
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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671705
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City Competition for the Creative Class
Buettner, Thiess; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013
This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699658
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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546957
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Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2014
districts, incomplete segregation of citizens who work in different business centers and, therefore, cross commuting, and … incomplete segregation of workers and farmers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877905
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TransNIEMO: Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria
Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; II, James E. Moore; Pan, … - CESifo - 2014
We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network. Simulations of major choke-point disruptions redirect...
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