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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth : Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

commuting patterns. Although only suggestive, the finding is interesting in that it is consistent with the hypothesis that … inequality enhances growth by stimulating commuting incentives …

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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes

Lundberg, Shelly - 2014

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...

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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity : The Case of Italy

Checchi, Daniele - 2005

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an quot;ethically offensivequot; and an quot;ethically acceptablequot; part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise,...

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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition

Azam, Mehtabul - 2016

Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...

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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria : A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...

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The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

Modai-Snir, Tal - 2017

Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within an urban region, without looking at the underlying processes. Often, changes in socio-spatial structures reflect intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing...

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Active Commuting and the Health of Workers

Echeverría, Lucía; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2022

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …

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Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms : Evidence from Same-Sex Couples

Oreffice, Sonia; Sansone, Dario - 2022

market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we …, and marital status. These differences among men and women amount to 50%, and 100%, respectively, of the gender commuting … commuting time are also significantly smaller in same-sex couples, and labor supply disparities mimic the commuting ones …

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The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion : Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2017

Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...

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