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How does high dependence on natural resources affect income inequality? Surprisingly little is known about the impact … paper studies the relationship between income shocks through changes in commodity prices and income inequality in a panel of … looking at different types of inequality (pay-driven vs. capital-rents-driven). Results show that commodity price shocks have …
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economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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historical income inequality and its current dimensions is stronger in developing than in developed countries. We also found a … higher capacity of social expenditure to reduce income inequality in developed countries, and a positive relationship between … unemployment and income inequality in both clusters. Moreover, we identified a positive relationship between tertiary education …
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. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and … further generations. Eliminating racial wage differentials and promoting equal opportunities among citizens with different …
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and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … enabled a reduction in wage income inequality, as well as in per capita income inequality, albeit to a lesser extent. …This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the …
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. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and … further generations. Eliminating racial wage differentials and promoting equal opportunities among citizens with different …
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. Additionally, leadership is the dominant topic. Other relevant topics (i.e. human resource development) are still underrepresented …
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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
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Koreans living abroad, transforming the diaspora into a positive force for long-term development. …
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