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Inequalities and Segregation Across the Long-Term Economic Cycle : An Analysis of South and North European Cities

Tammaru, Tiit - 2017

The aim of this paper is to get new insight into the complex relationship between social inequalities and socioeconomic segregation by undertaking a comparative study North and South European cities. Our main finding shows that during the last global economic cycle from the 1980s through the...

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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities : Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Musterd, Sako - 2016

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Eder, Christoph - 2019

The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...

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The Long-Lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Eder, Christoph - 2016

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, about 11 percent of the population residing in the Soviet zone moved across the demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration...

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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 … Russia, the social services sector of the public administration, education and health still do not have the expected …

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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …

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War of the Waves : Radio and Resistance During World War Ii

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2018

Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...

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