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Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development … dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper builds on a study of socio-economic segregation in twelve European …
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Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development … dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper builds on a study of socio-economic segregation in twelve European …
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income database from the U.S. census is used to establish new stylized facts about the patterns of spatial inequality in the …Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their … neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income …
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The purpose of the paper is to identify areas in South Africa where social-economic disparity exists using 2011 census …; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either … regarded as individual settlements or contiguous settlements as delimited at the main place level in the census. Due to the …
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In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult...
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