sheds light on this issue by analysing changes in the spatial distribution of four groups of artists over time: visual … artists, performing artists, musicians, and writers. Little evidence is found for amenity-related factors influencing the … growth rates of regional artist populations. Moreover, artists are shown to be a heterogeneous group inasmuch as the relative …

Language proficiency is a crucial skill for immigrants that influences their social integration and their children …'s development. This study examines the intergenerational effects of limited English proficiency (LEP) on children's health and … health care utilisation. We use 10 years of Australian administrative health care records linked to survey data, and a …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …