This study develops a framework to evaluate real estate financial risk from three perspectives: internal risk factors, external risk factors, and interconnected risk factors, examining regional space-time differences and dynamic evolution laws across 30 provinces in China. The research finds...

This paper examines how regional economic diversity shapes economic resilience across European regions during major crises. Using sectoral diversity indicators at the NUTS-2 level, we analyze the impact of diversity on three dimensions of resilience: the depth of economic downturns, the strength...

We estimate the long-term intergenerational mobility (IM) in Brazil, by mesoregion, utiliz ing the methodology developed by Güell, Mora and Telmer (2015) and Güell et al. (2018). Benefiting from the unique features of Brazil, such as data availability on income, edu cation, full names, our...

• The rise in total upfront cash requirement has become the main obstacle to homeownership in Germany. Between 2015 and 2024, the average household needed a median of 9.37 years to save the necessary funds for a home purchase. • A substantial share of this burden comes not from the price...

The paper aims to provide spatial evidence on where to prioritize place-based support for women's entrepreneurship by linking the geography of female founders to the proximity of formal support infrastructure in Germany. To pursue this objective, we assemble nationwide venture microdata covering...

This paper examines the determinants of temporary migration and return decisions among immigrants in Italy, drawing on a novel administrative dataset covering 3.7 million foreignborn individuals between 2011 and 2022. By reconstructing individual migration histories, we estimate migration...

Das FDZ Ruhr am RWI stellt Preisindizes für Wohnungen und Häuser (Vermietung und Verkauf) in Deutschland ab dem Jahr 2008 zur Verfügung. Die Preisindizes basieren auf dem Immobiliendatensatz RWI-GEO-RED, der Immobilienangebote von ImmoScout24 zusammenfasst. Wir führen drei Arten von...

Regional economic inequality remains a persistent challenge in developing economies, particularly in peripheral regions characterized by fragmented geography and uneven development. This study examines spatial spillovers in regional economic inequality by integrating spatial econometric analysis...

This paper examines the effects of public infrastructure spending across Ecuadorian cantons on adequate employment and the multidimensional poverty rate over the period 2008-2022, assessing whether such spending operated as a mechanism of convergence. The analysis is grounded in the hypothesis...

This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. Using a sample of 168 countries, we estimate the 10:1 spread in construction productivity as a factor of 49-fold in 2017. The construction productivity gap falls by 46 percent...

Foreign direct investment and the activities of multinational enterprises play an essential role in shaping employment outcomes, particularly in developing and emerging economies. With globalization and the expansion of global value chains, understanding how FDI influences labour markets has...

The FDZ Ruhr provides two campus files on real estate advertisements in Germany: the Panel Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Panel) and a Cross-Sectional Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Cross-Section). The datasets are extractions of the Scientific Use Files of RWI-GEO-RED. The Panel File covers the 15 largest...

We show that executives' early-life poverty experiences reduce both internal (executive-employee) and external (executive-peer) corporate pay disparities. Three mechanisms drive this effect: increased risk aversion in poverty-exposed executives, strategic avoidance of negative media coverage to...

This paper examines the relationship between location, liquidity, and prices in housing markets. We construct spatial datasets for German and U.S. cities and show that liquidity and prices decline with distance to the city center. To rationalize these results, we build a structural model with...

This paper examines the geography of intergenerational income mobility in South Africa across districts and metropolitan municipalities as well as historically disadvantaged former-homelands. South Africa's high inequality has a geographical dimension (spatial inequality), shaped by a long...

We reconnect the economic and geographical dimensions of labour market dynamics by examining whether settlement models affect local labour markets' performances in Italy. Results of spatial Durbin regressions outline a quadratic relationship between unemployment and market area, with lower rates...

This paper investigates how pro-environmental preferences interact with structural regional conditions in shaping interregional migration intentions across EU regions. Survey-based individual data are combined with regional indicators in multinomial logit models of short- and long-term migration...

Geographical indications (GIs) are information signals based on a product's geographical origin. They reduce information asymmetry for consumers and protect producers from imitation. This paper examines the local economic impact of GIs by focusing on the renowned Champagne AOC in France....

Inclusive insurance plays a critical role in reducing household vulnerability in developing countries such as Indonesia. This study investigates the factors influencing inclusive insurance participation across regencies in the Special Region of Yogyakarta Province using multinomial logistic...

This paper examines how stable national disposable income inequality can coexist with substantial local reconfiguration in spatial inequality within a small, open, and highly integrated economy. Focusing on Luxembourg, where strong commuting flows and a nationally uniform tax-benefit system...

The COVID-19 pandemic generated highly heterogeneous economic effects across territories, reflecting differences in local production structures and spatial organization. This paper examines the geography of short-run economic fragility during the first wave of the pandemic by identifying...

This study challenges the conventional assumption that polycentric urban development inherently reduces spatial inequalities. Focusing on the Tehran Metropolitan Region between 2010 and 2020, it demonstrates that housing affordability crises can actively generate-rather than mitigate-polycentric...

Economic crises significantly restrict corporate access to external financing, and regional differences in recovery capacity deserve close attention. This study examines the financial structure and debt of large enterprises in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries (Hungary, Czechia, Poland,...

Cross-border regions usually suffer from barriers hindering networking and creating contact among people. On a sample of 244 non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the Upper-Rhine region at the French, German, and Swiss borders, the research used partial least squares structural equation modeling...

While most studies on COVID-19 in India have centred on infection rates, this study shifts the lens towards mortality by examining the spatial disparities and determinants of the COVID-19 case fatality ratio (CFR), a critical yet underexplored indicator of disease severity with economic...

Cohesion Policy (CP) is the European Union's main instrument to address regional disparities and promote convergence. Yet, over the past two decades, spatial inequalities within the Union have widened, raising concerns about the effectiveness of CP and its ability to confront the structural...

Metropolitan regions are considered as major drivers of economic growth due to the significant productivity gains resulting from their agglomeration economies. This article examines the level, growth, convergence and clustering of productivity in metropolitan EU regions, as defined by Functional...

Work capability-the life opportunities afforded to people related to work-shape people's broader social vulnerability and resilience. However, the opportunity to decent work varies significantly across people and places, depending on socio-demographic characteristics, local contextual factors,...

This study investigates the effect of electricity consumption on air pollution in Türkiye at the provincial level through spatial analyses. Using SO2 and PM10 measurements as indicators of air pollution, this study incorporates income, population density, and electricity consumption as...

Understanding the structural change in catching-up regions and the spatial distribution of economic sectors is essential for designing comprehensive policy strategies to promote balanced economic development. This study examines the economic restructuring of the 11 central and eastern European...