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, across the core Member States, we observe a dramatic increase in employment disparities that have been pushing inequality … upwards over the last decade. On a regional level, aggregate within-country inequality is determined by employment differences … between regions. Nevertheless, there are large increases in inequality as regards the distribution of regional productivity in …
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The paper aims to build a bridge between the New Economic Geography and Malthusian theory. Both theories seek to explain the phenomenon of agglomeration processes: Malthusian theory through first nature effects; the New Economic Geography through second nature effects. Using a methodology based...
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This paper examines the changes in regional and sectoral inequality that accompanied economic transformation in Russia … and China throughout the 1990s. The experiences of the two countries are widely viewed as having been polar opposites … inequality. In both cases, regional inequalities rose more sharply than inequalities across sectors but within regions. In …
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This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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. This paper stresses the importance of adopting a multi-angle approach to fully understand income inequality in China. We …Economic reforms have brought about spectacular growth and vast improvements of people’s living standards in China … since 1978. In the meantime, unbalanced regional growth and income inequality have become two important concerns of future …
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manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the …China has achieved unprecedented success in economic growth since the initiation of economic reforms. The high growth … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database …
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This paper proposes a new model generating city size distributions that asymptotically follow the log-normal distribution. The log-normal distribution is consistent with Zipf’s law in the top tail, which is known to hold for many countries in different periods. The key feature of our model is...
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This paper examines pay inequality in Turkish manufacturing annually from 1980 to 2001. Using the between …-group component of Theil's T statistic, we decompose the evolution of inequality by geographic region, province, sub-sector and by … East-West distinction both for private and public sectors. The decompositions show that while inequality remains …
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, it is shown that the inequality of that distribution is stable and that its degree of polarization has a decreasing trend …. Next, the paper analyses the changes in the inequality between permanent and temporary employees and between those with or … distribution within these worker categories. Finally, the paper shows that the share of regional differences in the inequality of …
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