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policies implemented in China after the 2008 crisis to tackle housing unaffordability have been effective except for the least …
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Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf's law. Policy implications are outlined. -- urbanization ; globalization ;...
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This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the creation of new organisations and clusters as a geographically proximate group of interconnected firms and associated institutions in related industries, this paper aims to...
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Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110806
size, productivity, composition, and inequality of cities, as well as their size distribution in the urban system. …
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) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private productive assets. …
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The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon … considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change …
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What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …
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level of fertility. In this context, economic inequality is not only decisive for human capital investments and the … effect of inequality and pollution on economic growth is amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides …
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