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city's sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …
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In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
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have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic …
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We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...
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This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although … expected to eradicate poverty but likely to continue facing high inequality, particularly as major technology breakthroughs …
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implications of a change in government’s regional policy on individuals’ residential choice, growth, inequality and welfare. In … but also reduces economywide inequalities. Therefore, there is no trade-off between growth, welfare and inequality …. Interestingly, we also show that inequality can always be dampened if the development gap across regions is initially high. …
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The impact of income inequality on economic growth is dependent on several factors, including the time horizon … considered, the initial level of income and its initial distribution. Yet, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space … also seem pertinent to consider not just the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also the changes they undergo (i …
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1986-2004. To this end, a decomposition of the Theil´s second measure of inequality is used. The analysis carried out …
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rates, and that, despite the significant positive effect of inequality on criminality, this influence is mitigated by the …
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