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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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Centre et périphérie : le nouveau modèle québécois
Proulx, Marc-Urbain - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2012) 4, pp. 597-621
This paper provides a spatioeconomic analysis of the actual territorial transformation on Quebec space. Writings on this issue are classified in four main components showing centrifugal movements and polycentrism. Analysis of recent decades of data illustrates that center/periphery models are...
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Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint Distribution
Teixidó-Figueras, J.; Duro, J.A. - In: Ecological Economics 104 (2014) C, pp. 93-106
consumption responds to polarization (as opposed to mere inequality). To assess this, we estimate and decompose different … polarization indices for a balanced sample of 119 countries over the period 1961 to 2007. Our results point towards a polarized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043647
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Commodity windfalls, polarization, and net foreign assets: Panel data evidence on the voracity effect
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - In: Journal of International Economics 86 (2012) 2, pp. 318-326
This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970–2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
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The Determinants of Distribution Dynamics: A Novel Methodology with an Application to the Cross-Country Distribution of Productivity Preliminary version. Please do not quote withou...
Fiaschi, Davide; Parenti, Angela - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2010
output per worker in 1960 increased polarization. Also investment rate favoured polarization, but the such effect appears not … statistically significant. Finally human capital and employment growth appear not to affect the polarization of distribution. …
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Relative income distribution in six European countries: market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The … the disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the …
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Left, right, left: income dynamics and the evolving political preferences of forward-looking Bayesian voters
Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. While the implications of upward mobility for the political preferences of forward-looking voters have been...
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Accounting for big-city growth in low-paid occupations: immigration and/or service-class consumption
Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126623
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Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and...
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Income polarization in Brazil, 2001-2011: A distributional analysis using PNAD data
Clementi, F.; Schettino, F. - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2013
the country, we are able to document an increased income polarization, which has particularly affected households below …
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