that the railroad was the quot;causequot; of midwestern urbanization, accounting for more than half of the increase in the …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … explanatory power for our new series of inequality measures back to 1981. Our simulations tracking the partial “Kuznets derivative …

were occupied by the French and that underwent radical institutional reform experienced more rapid urbanization and …

countries experiencing larger increases in unemployment and where credit growth during the pre-crisis period was more rapid …

unemployment, and negative growth forecasting errors in a panel of 30 countries from 1960 to 2012. Consistent with the “credit …

evolution of the labor share, the profit rate, the capital/output ratio, and unemployment which we examine more particularly in …

employment, GDP, and unemployment. The release of resources from the housing sector lowers investment goods prices, and thereby …