Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant … evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized … mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility in response to rising COVID …

regions. The rise in inequality is related to declining incentives for interregional labor mobility, especially for poor …Growing regional inequality within countries has raised the perception that 'some places and people' are left behind … stylized facts on regional inequality for OECD countries. It shows that regional disparity in per-capita GDP is large (even …

labor mobility …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base …

International financial integration has greatly increased the scope for changes in a country''s net foreign asset …

productivity growth, a rise in income inequality, and public policy. The model can account for a 2.2 percentage point (pp) decline … in r* between 1975 and 2015, which is within the range of empirical estimates. Rising income inequality is an important … most of the decline. Growing public debt is the major counteracting force (+0.31 pp). Permanent income inequality is of …