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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310960
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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522047
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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to … leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943695
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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484032
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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to … leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758269
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Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China (PRC), this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983360
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International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Alimi, Omoniyi - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906511
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Residential Segregation : The Role of Inequality and Housing Subsidies
Harting, Philipp - 2018
Residential segregation is a key public policy issue that is driven by economic factors on the one side, and individual attitudes towards ethnic diversity on the other side. We assume a modeling framework that consists of a population of two ethnic groups, a rental market for each neighborhood,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917295
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Black suburbanization and the evolution of spatial inequality since 1970
Bartik, Alexander W.; Mast, Evan - 2021
Since 1970, the share of Black individuals living in suburbs of larger cities has risen from 16 to 36 percent. We present three facts illustrating how this suburbanization has changed spatial inequality. First, suburbanization entirely accounts for Black households' relative improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660570
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International migration and the distribution of income in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David Christopher; Poot, Jacques - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949538