This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...

Dimensions of Discrimination -- Insights from Social Psychology -- Intersectionality and Discrimination -- Methodological Approaches to Understanding Discrimination: Decomposition Methods -- Methodological Approaches to Understanding Discrimination: Field Experiments.

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based...

Key words: regional inequalities, localist movements, integration, Castilla-Catalonia, Flanders-Wallonia The expansive nature of the dominant socio-economic model lead to the current globalized economy based on open borders, the laws of the open market and the integration of local economic...

We present a simple reproducible methodology for constructing regional capital stock data, which we apply to Israel. We find that capital deepening has been sigma-convergent since 1985. This process is "inverted" since capital stocks and capital-labor ratios in the richer center have been...

This study aims to analyze the evolution of access to higher education in the cohort 18-24 years, which is considered the most adequate for this level of education. Initially, we question the use of this age group as a reference to measure the degree of access to this level of education in...

The global economic crisis has had a major impact on the economies of EU Member States, among other things, public sector budget deficits and public debt levels have risen dramatically. This has been reflected also on the budgets of the European Union (EU) that had become tighter and raise the...

In recent times, the attention given to the importance of tourism as a particularly efficient way to promote regional development has significantly increased, owing to the capacity of tourism to create income and employment and to generate synergies within other economic sectors. Tourism is...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...