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positive relationship between regional inequality and Covid-19 infection is driven by mobility. Our findings imply that policy …We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it … using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality …
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across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland … between February and December 2020. We find that German-speaking cantons decreased their mobility for non essential activities … decline in mobility. Additionally, cantons supporting a limited role of the state in matters of welfare also displayed a lower …
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Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...
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, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …
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-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to … 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Then, using the historical position …
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Overall mobility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because of government lockdowns and voluntary social distancing …. Yet, aggregate data mask important heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility … a larger impact on the mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility …
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Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion … of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between … individual mobility in Italy. By using a spatial discontinuity approach, we show that these measures were effective in that they …
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institutional changes aimed at increasing growth, improving security and reducing income inequality in poorer countries. …
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institutional changes aimed at increasing growth, improving security and reducing income inequality in poorer countries. …
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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to...
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