This paper identifies and analyzes the trends and patterns in consumption differences between Eastern and Western European households from 2000 to 2021. Using clustering methods and regression analysis, it examines consumer spending patterns and convergence processes, focusing on how household...

A great deal would suggest that the process of urbanisation in developing countries leads to both negative allocation effects and to an increase in income inequality between urban and rural districts. Regional policy measures almed at improving the lot of rural areas would seem called for. Which...

Der Antrag der Volksinitiative "Für einen Mindestlohn von zehn Euro pro Stunde" in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Drucksache 6/1020 des Landtags Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) zielt auf einen bundesweit einheitlichen flächendeckenden Mindestlohn in Höhe von zehn Euro je Stunde, zu dessen Einführung das...

This chapter does three things. First, it estimates regional gross domestic product (GDP) for three different geographical levels in Switzerland (97 micro regions, 16 labor market basins, and 3 large regions). Second, it analyzes the evolution of regional inequality relying on a heuristic model...

This paper extends a methodology proposed by Nissanov and Silber (2009) who decomposed the coefficient β used in convergence analysis into three components checking respectively whether there was σ -convergence, whether ‘pure mobility’ (upward or downward income mobility) was lower among...