Income inequality in European Regions: Recent trends and determinants

Castells‐Quintana, David; Ramos, Raúl; Royuela, Vicente

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“…Results are highly significant and suggest that the inverted‐U relationship between economic development and inequality may now have an N shape: first increasing, then declining, and finally rising again. Similar results have recently been found for European regions (Castells‐Quintana et al., ). To the best of my knowledge, this result has not been documented before in a cross‐country framework.…”

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“…Papers in this literature usually consider inequality at the country level (i.e., Fields, , for Least Developed Countries; Milanovic, ; Li, Squire, & Zou, ; Barro, ; Frazer, ; Gustafsson & Johansson, ; Vanhoudt, ; and Roine, Vlachos, & Waldenstrom, , for world samples; Odedokun & Round, , for Africa; and Castells‐Quintana & Larrú, , for Latin America). Other papers study inequality at the regional level (i.e., Perugini & Martino, ; Tselios, , ; Rodríguez‐Pose & Tselios, ; Royuela, Veneri, & Ramos, ; Castells‐Quintana, Ramos, & Royuela, ). One key and usual issue of analysis in all of this literature is that of the relationship between development (and urbanization) and income inequality in the spirit of the Kuznets’ inverted‐U.…”

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Beyond Kuznets: Inequality and the size and distribution of cities

Castells‐Quintana

2017

Journal of Regional Science

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As countries develop the percentage of population living in urban areas tends to increase. As this happens, inequality is expected first to increase and then to decline in what is known as the Kuznets inverted-U. But the literature has not paid much attention to differences in the absolute size of cities potentially affecting economywide inequality. Building on insights from the urban economics literature, this paper studies the relationship between the size and distribution of cities and income inequality at country level. Results show that beyond Kuznets' hypothesis there is a U-shaped relationship between average city size and inequality; inequality first falls and then increases with average city size. This result is robust to a long list of controls, different estimation techniques, and identification strategies.

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Beyond Kuznets: Inequality and the size and distribution of cities

Castells‐Quintana

2017

Journal of Regional Science

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“…The existent literature offers ample material to support this interpretation. Spain has adopted a model of policy intervention largely unbalanced towards transport infrastructure (Crescenzi & Rodríguez-Pose, 2012;Crescenzi, Di Cataldo, & Rodríguez-Pose, 2016) and disconnected from the endemic challenges in terms of skills, youth unemployment and other dimensions of regional development such as social inequalities (Castells-Quintana, Ramos, & Royuela, 2015). A positive effectin sharp contrast with the rest of the EUemerges in Spanish regions only during the 2010-14 subperiod in terms of higher growth while unemployment problems have remained unaffected.…”

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One or many Cohesion Policies of the European Union? On the differential economic impacts of Cohesion Policy across member states

2019

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To what extent do regions in different member states of the European Union benefit from Cohesion Policy? A spatial regression discontinuity design approach offers distinct but fully comparable estimates of regional impacts for each individual member state. Cohesion Policy has a positive European Union-wide impact on regional growth and employment. However, a large part of the growth bonus is concentrated in Germany, while impacts on employment are confined to the UK. The picture in Southern Europe is less rosy. In Italy, positive impacts on employment do not survive the Great Recession, while in Spain economic growth benefits are limited to the recovery period.

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“…3 See for example Castells-Quintana et al (2015) for a review of the literature of the trends and determinants of income inequality in Europe. 4 See e.g.…”

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More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Alimi

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Poot

2018

Advances in Spatial Science

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Income inequality in European Regions: Recent trends and determinants

Cited by 58 publications

References 52 publications

Beyond Kuznets: Inequality and the size and distribution of cities

Beyond Kuznets: Inequality and the size and distribution of cities

One or many Cohesion Policies of the European Union? On the differential economic impacts of Cohesion Policy across member states

More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

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