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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R. - 2006
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783381
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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity : The Case of Italy
Checchi, Daniele - 2005
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an quot;ethically offensivequot; and an quot;ethically acceptablequot; part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise,...
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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices Across German Districts
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria : A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth : Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Hornbeck, Richard - 2019
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870205
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People and Machines : A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016276
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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the Chns 1997 and 2006 Data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138684
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
Su, Biwei - 2014
-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …
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