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Fiscal redistribution and the narrowing urban-rural income gap
Loras-Gimeno, Diego; Gómez-Bengoechea, Gonzalo; … - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-12
This paper explores the regional impacts of heterogeneous fiscal redistribution policies on urbanrural income gaps. We … across urban and rural areas of the different fiscal redistribution systems that operate regionally in Spain. To do that, we … that there is a 6 % urbanrural income gap for market income and that redistribution reduces it to 4 % for final income …
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The great divide : regional inequality and fiscal policy
Gbohoui, William; Lam, W. Raphael; Lledó, Victor D. - 2019
Growing regional inequality within countries has raised the perception that 'some places and people' are left behind. This has prompted a shift toward inward-looking policies and away from pro-growth reforms. This paper presents novel stylized facts on regional inequality for OECD countries. It...
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The geographic redistribution of income in the United States, 1969-2019 : examining the role of federal policy
Posey, John Randall - In: Forum for social economics 51 (2022) 4, pp. 361-376
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The dynamics of redistribution, inequality and growth across China’s regions
Yang, Xiaoliang; Barros, Lucy; Matthews, Kent; Meenagh, … - 2023
China's fast growth has been accompanied by rising regional inequality, triggering debate over a policy trade-off between aggregate growth and equity. We set out a three-region model of China in which local government behavior affects local TFP dynamics, and regional inequality itself generates...
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The dynamics of redistribution, inequality and growth across China’s regions
Yang, Xiaoliang; Barros, Lucy; Matthews, Kent; Meenagh, … - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 46 (2024) 3, pp. 613-637
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Measuring the contribution of social policies to regional inequality dynamic in Brazil
Silveira Neto, Raul da Mota; Azzoni, Carlos Roberto - 2011
We decompose the recent changes in regional inequality in Brazil into its components, highlighting the role of spatially blind social programs. We aggregate personal income micro data to the state level, differentiating 9 income sources, and assess the role of these components in the observed...
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.
This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2020
The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301102
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Trade, integration and interregional inequality : conference paper
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2013
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an...
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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
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