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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development.The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Human Capital and Growth in the Post-Bellum South: A Separate but Unequal Story

Connolly, Michelle P. - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2001

This paper tests the importance of human capital in explaining convergence across states of the United States after 1880. Human capital levels are found to matter not only to a state's income level but also to its growth rate through technological diffusion. The South's low human capital levels...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development: The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

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Competitive Pressure on China : Income Inequality

ten Raa, Thijs; Pan, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

In the preceding paper we have seen that the top types of labor are relatively scarce in China and this raises the …

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in Papers in Regional Science (2010). Volume 89, issue 3, pages 537-561. Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable...

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EUROPEAN URBANIZATION – BETWEEN STRENGTHS AND RISKS

Danu, Marcela-Cornelia - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2013) 18

On the European continent, urban population, representing a significant segment of the market, with features specific to a particular model of purchase, consumption, lifestyle, etc. , has the potential for growth. The possible effects of this increase (strengths or risks), include: increasing...

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City size, migration, and urban inequality in the People's Republic of China

Chen, Binkai; Liu, Dan; Lu, Ming - 2017

the 2005 Census in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We calculate various measures of within-city income inequality …

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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality

Yu, Xiaofan - 2011

China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … also the choropleth maps of clusters in China, this paper reaches the conclusion that clusters of prefectures and provinces …

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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …

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Connective Financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...

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