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Urban Inequality
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and people in unequal cities are more likely to say that they are unhappy. There is also a negative association between local inequality and the growth of both income and population,...
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2023
The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J. - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
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Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles : Evidence from German Cities, Banks, and Firms
Bednarek, Peter; te Kaat, Daniel; Ma, Chang; Rebucci, … - 2022
We study how an aggregate bank flow shock impacts German cities' GDP growth depending on the state of their local real estate markets. Identification exploits a policy framework assigning refugees to cities on a quasi-random basis and variation in non-developable area for the construction of a...
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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
Putterman, Louis - 2010
We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...
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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
Roses, Joan R. - 2010
The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...
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Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2010
This paper disaggregates total household income into a complete set of components and studies the comparative cyclicality of these components to economic growth. Comparisons of the relative responsiveness to GNP growth of wages, hours of work, and total labor market income of heads and wives,...
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Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2010
A paradigm is presented where both the extent of financial intermediation and the rate of economic growth are endogenously determined. Financial intermediation promotes growth because it allows a higher rate of return to be earned on capital, and growth in turn provides the means to implement...
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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
Elwell, James - 2019
Using Census Bureau estimates of the market value of in-kind transfers and Current Population Survey (ASEC-CPS) data over the period 1979 to 2007, Burkhauser et al. (2012b) construct measures of income and its distribution. We extend their work forward to 2016 and back to 1967 using ASEC-CPS...
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