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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
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 also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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The evolution of regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2015
Bucciferro, Justin R.; Souza, Pedro H. G. Ferreira de - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 131-156). 2020
Regional inequality may hinder national development, which is disconcerting for Brazil as one of the world's most unequal countries. This chapter compiles new and existing state-level estimates of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Brazil and examines their dispersion over the time...
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Regional economic inequality in Colombia, 1926-2018
Meisel Roca, Adolfo; Hahn-De-Castro, Lucas Wilfried - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 183-210). 2020
This chapter studies regional economic inequalities in Colombia between 1926 and 2018. We use regional economic data from several academic and official sources to study the patterns of economic growth through most of the century. We conclude that Colombian regions did not converge during this...
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Spatial distribution dynamics
Gerolimetto, Margherita; Magrini, Stefano - 2015 - Very preliminary version, this version: June 12, 2015
It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the …-filtering. Using this tool, we then reconsider the evidence on convergence across regional economies in the US. …
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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association
Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version
of new economic growth theory. The aim of this paper is to combine an assessment of innovative and entrepreneurial … economic activities metropolitan regions can lead to excess growth, and contribute to a process of convergence between nations … location quotients and the change of LQ) are included. Within these groups we study the process of convergence by use of the …
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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010
Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020
1980 was characterized by regional convergence, although it was accompanied by a strong persistence in the geographical …, regional convergence during the state-led Industrialization period was led by an intense process of factor mobility (and …
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Spatial inequality in Latin America (1895-2010) : convergence and clusters in a long-run approach
Badia-Miró, Marc; Nicolini, Esteban A.; Willebald, Henry - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 343-374). 2020
Interdisciplinary History, 49(1), 117-139, 2018), we will test existence of sigma and beta convergence, and the evolution of the Theil …
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The effects of trade openness on regional inequality in South Korea
Heo, Soojeong; Oh, Jinhwan - 2015
This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving force of Korea's economic growth since the 1960's and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In...
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Growth and convergence among Argentine provinces since 1895
Aráoz, María Florencia; Nicolini, Esteban A.; … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 65-95). 2020
The economic development of Argentina since the end of the nineteenth century is a story of growth, splendour and then stagnation and relative decline. In this chapter we present the first consistent formal quantitative analysis of the regional dimension of that story. By putting together...
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