to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … level of income inequality, so becoming equally more unequal. Second, this process is significantly faster when regions …Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities …

regressions, after a number of robustness checks, indicate that NUTS 2 regions are converging to higher level of income inequality …Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … across the EU regions mostly concentrate on convergence in average per capita incomes, offering much less evidence on how …

Previous research has highlighted the disadvantaged position immigrants often face in the economy, particularly when it … economic exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized not as labor market outcomes but as relative poverty. This study examines the … that of native poverty. One publicly held belief is that immigrants disproportionately benefit from welfare generosity …

that income inequality in less unequal regions grows faster than in more equal regions, regardless of regional … Goals. Yet existing research on income inequality in developing economies has not devoted much attention to the regional … dimension. This is important, as progress in reducing income inequality at national level on SDG Goal 10 is only a partial …

order to determine the extent of the territorial variable in the explanation of income inequality, we carry out two … complementary analyses. On the one hand, we perform the classical decomposition by population subgroups of different inequality …

This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically … inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a selected sample of OECD countries. We provide new evidence over a more varied … increase in income inequality, with an interesting "reducing effect" on this trend due to inter-territorial population …

that is yet fairly unexplored, namely immigration. As inequality has increased in Sweden, so has also immigration. Sweden … studies. Results show that the inflow of new migrants during the early 1990's in Sweden raises income inequality and it is …Income inequality has been on the rise in many industrialised countries since around the 1980's. In Sweden the increase …

admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the …Germany is one of the several countries in Europe that have opened its borders to immigrants for many years. The … immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational …

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …

factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two … variant of a shift-share instrument to identify the effect of migration on inequalities at the regional level in Spain and … Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …