of the impact of the presence of Wal-Mart on black-white income and unemployment differentials. It is posited that Wal … demographic and economic variables that affect unemployment and income, the impact of a Wal-Mart is tested by using a dummy …

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely … measures to escape poverty, acquire skills and integrate into the labour market. …

with similar tenants. Granular data on demographics, income, housing and financial wealth, and debt allow us to construct … consumption in the wake of an adverse income shock. We also find a positive but short-lived effect on labor supply …

that tourism jobs are lower paying, often seasonal, and can generate a host of social ills with earned income concentrated … in low-income households. A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of a Pennsylvania region is used to test the impacts of … tourism businesses supported by the Progress Fund, a regional Community Development Financial Institution, on household income …

This paper analyzes sources of income inequality in Korea with respect to income source and region. When the Gini index … of overall income inequality was decomposed by geographical boundaries, the relative contribution of between …-region inequality to the total was 67.96 percent in 1995, showing a Gini index of 0.315. Half of this income inequality (a Gini index of …