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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on …
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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019
The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...
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On the foreign to native wage differential in Germany: does the home country matter?
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2020
The German labour force is expected to shrink in the next two decades due to a decline in population. Therefore, the immigration of workers from abroad could compensate potential negative effects of such decline. Is Germany competitive for immigration - i. e., do German employers pay enough to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259720
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Natural amenities and the spatial distribution of Swiss income
Leuba, Joséphine - 2019 - Preliminary version: August 29, 2019
The present article describes how the spatial distribution of income in Switzerland is related to natural amenities. We explore the link between inequalities in Swiss municipalities and the presence of lakes, rivers, mountains, good accessibility and green amenities. By using fiscal data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062172
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867074
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Neighbourhood and school poverty simultaneously predicting educational achievement, taking into account timing and duration of exposure
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2019
Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth … examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … educational achievement of adolescents at age 16. Our results indicate that neighbourhood poverty impacts on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022696
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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands … levels of mobility between neighbourhood types are low and opportunities to move to more socio-economically advantaged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758269
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Structural and exchange components in processes of neighbourhood change : a social mobility approach
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
/decline' effect), or change the inequality among neighbourhoods, where the top and bottom of the neighbourhood hierarchy move away … from each other ('inequality' effect). A common practice in neighbourhood change studies is to represent neighbourhood …Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by multiple macro- and micro-level processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641481
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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental … education. -- Child poverty ; neighbourhood ; Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958740
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Lessons learned from the largest tenure mix operation in the world : right to buy in the United Kingdom
Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2013
these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often … RTB are by no means solely beneficial. -- Right to Buy ; tenure mix ; neighbourhood effects ; urban renewal ; residential … mobility ; poverty neighbourhoods …
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