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More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi - 2017
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally …. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age … 1986 to 2013 by age and urban area, this paper examines the effects of population ageing on spatial-temporal changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958054
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Migration and Environment
Millock, Katrin - 2015
The concept of environmental migrants occurs frequently in the policy debate, in particular with regard to climate change and its incidence on low-income countries. This paper reviews the economic studies of environmentally-induced migration. It includes the recent empirical analyses that try to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023947
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Mobility and agricultural economies in rural Italy : sometimes the world can be seen more clearly from its margins
Cersosimo, Domenico; Nisticò, Rosanna - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 1, pp. 7-17
This study examines how the Covid-19 pandemic crises has not only modified networks and rhythms of human movement and migratory flows on both a global and local scale; yet it also has weakened the hegemony of the prevailing paradigm that considers urban densification as "the" way to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671738
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More pensioners, less income inequality? : the impact of changing age composition on inequality in big cities and elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally …. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age … 1986 to 2013 by age and urban area, this paper examines the effects of population ageing on spatial-temporal changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641442
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Demographic change in cities : Trends, challenges and insights from G7 economies
Burgalassi, David - 2024
distinct, yet interrelated, dynamics: i) ageing population and decreasing household size in cities (for instance, the number of …) spatial segregation within cities (for instance, commuting zones of metropolitan areas are ageing faster than inner cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567909
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Female brain drains and women's rights gaps : a gravity model analysis of bilateral migration flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337414
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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064868
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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055895
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En-Gendering Economic Inequality
Gilman, Michele E. - 2016
We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983556
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The slow demographic transition in regions vulnerable to climate change
Nguyen Thang Dao; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Vasilakis, … - 2022
This paper considers the persistent effects of climate change on the speed of demographic transi- tion, and hence on the size of the population in regions that are the least developed and the most vulnerable to climate change, such as Sub-Saharan Africa. These effects are transmitted through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369680