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Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil - 2007

Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further reductions in poverty as well as economic growth and local...

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Income Mobility and Economic Inequality from a Regional Perspective

Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan - 2011

A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the national level. The objective of this study is to establish...

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So Close Yet so Unequal : Spatial Inequality in American Cities

Francesco, Andreoli - 2017

Rich income data and a new methodology are employed to investigate patterns and consequences of spatial inequality in American cities over the last 35 years. New Gini-type indices, which assess spatial inequality using individual neighborhoods of variable size as primitives, uncover from the...

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Income inequality, cohesiveness and commonality in the Euro area : a semi-parametric boundary-free analysis

Anderson, Gordon; Pittau, Maria Grazia; Zelli, Roberto; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-20

The cohesiveness of constituent nations in a confederation such as the Eurozone depends on their equally shared experiences. In terms of household incomes, commonality of distribution across those constituent nations with that of the Eurozone as an entity in itself is of the essence. Generally,...

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Inequality and earnings dynamics in France : national policies and local consequences

Kramarz, Francis; Nimier-David, Elio; Delemotte, Thomas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1527-1591

This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991-2016. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed countries and has been decreasing until the financial crisis...

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So close yet so unequal : reconsidering spatial inequality in U.S. cities

Andreoli, Francesco; Peluso, Eugenio - 2017 - Preliminary version: February 2, 2017

Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income inequality within individual neighborhoods; the...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its … economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978 … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

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Clustering, Growth, and Inequality in China

Guo, Di; Jiang, Kun; Xu, Chenggang; Yang, Xiyi - 2019

This study examines the effects of China’s industrial clusters on its economic growth and urban–rural income inequality …. A density-based index (DBI) is developed to capture the unique features of such clusters in China. From a county …

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Structural transformation and income distribution : kuznets and beyond

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …

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