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Egalitarian norms, economic development, and ethnic polarization

Haagsma, Rein; Mouche, Pierre v. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 719-744

accompanied by polarization and violent conflict. We illustrate this point by describing the processes of land privatization in …

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Chapter 18. Cultural Diversity, Conflict, and Economic Development

Montalvo, Jose G.; Reynal-Querol, Marta - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 485-506). 2014

distribution of culturally diverse groups affects the outcome. To understand why ethnic diversity affects conflict and economic …

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Social polarization and conflict : a network approach

Cárdenas, Ernesto - In: Cuadernos de economía 32 (2013), pp. 787-801

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The Impact of the Crisis on the Polarization of Spanish Wages/El impacto de la crisis en la polarización de los salarios en España

PALACIOS GONZÁLEZ, FEDERICO; FERNÁNDEZ, GARCÍA; ROSA Mª. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 32 (2014) Enero, pp. 335-348

This paper evaluates the impact of the economic downturn on Spanish wage polarization. Using the index of polarization of Palacios-González and García-Fernández (2012), we have computed polarization structuring the earners population into groups according to their wages, gender, education,...

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The macroeconomics of automation : data, theory, and policy analysis

Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Siu, Henry E.; … - 2020

The U.S. economy has experienced a significant drop in the fraction of the population employed in middle wage, "routine task-intensive" occupations. Applying machine learning techniques, we identify characteristics of those who used to be employed in such occupations and show they are now less...

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Ethnic Distribution, Effective Power and Conflict

Kovacic, Matija; Zoli, Claudio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

main measures of ethnic heterogeneity are employed in the econometric literature on ethnic diversity and conflict: the Gini … distributional aspect of ethnic diversity is associated with the outbreak of conflict. In this paper we argue that the relative … antagonism, we axiomatically derive a parametric class of indices of conflict potential that ombines the groups' effective power …

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World polarization in carbon emissions, potential conflict and groups: An updated revision

Antonio Duro, Juan; Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi - In: Energy Policy 74 (2014) C, pp. 425-432

conflict, it would seem logical to evaluate the degree to which the distribution of countries – for example, in terms of their …

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Social polarization and conflict: A network approach

Cárdenas, Ernesto - In: REVISTA CUADERNOS DE ECONOMÍA (2013)

Theoretically, polarization is associated with a higher probability of social conflict. This paper, in a microeconomic …

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How information sharing at information grounds helps reconnect a religiously divided society? Cafés, Christians and Muslims in Ambon, Indonesia

Rohman, Abdul - In: Journal of Documentation 76 (2020) 6, pp. 1155-1170

Christians and Muslims to exchange their different worldviews. Findings This study found that, after the conflict, Christian and … Muslim communities longed for the interaction they had with the other as it was before the conflict. However, these same … worldviews, re-stitching the broken social fabric in post-conflict Ambon. Originality/value This study expands the applicability …

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Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, Estimation

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we develop the measurement theory of polarization for the case in which income distributions can be described using density functions. Second, we provide sample estimators of population polarization indices that can be used to compare polarization...

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