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CAPITALISM AND REGIONAL INEQUALITY∗
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1980 The existence of regional disparities is not a necessary requirement for the perpetuation of capitalism. Nevertheless pockets of high unemployment and economic distress are likely features of the capitalist spatial system. The lack of coordination in time and space between individual firms will inevitably result in accumulation crises and spatial ...
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse +2 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Banking and regional inequality in Brazil: an empirical note
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2008 The paper investigates a neglected aspect of regional inequality in Brazil, namely regional inequalities related to financial flows. A synthetic regional financial inequality index is proposed and calculated in a semester basis over the 02-1994/02-2000 ...
Marcos Lima Marcelo Resende
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Energy Strategy ReviewsThis study has made a significant contribution to the literature on energy inequality by utilizing an economic-environmental framework to investigate this phenomenon across different income groups of countries worldwide.
M. Emami Meybodi, S. Owjimehr
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Regional inequalities in mortality. [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1993 STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the hypothesis of sustained and persistent inequalities in health between British regions and to ask how far they are a consequence of using standardised mortality ratios as the tool of measurement. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Data are regional, age specific death rates at seven points in time from 1931 to 1987-89 for ...
R, Illsley, J, Le Grand
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Regional Income Inequalities In Poland And Italy
Comparative Economic Research, 2015 Reducing regional inequality was one of the key means of promoting the “harmonious development” within Europe envisioned in the EEC Treaty of 1957. The pursuit of “economic, social and territorial cohesion” through ever closer regional and national ...
Alina Jędrzejczak
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Do Co-Worker Networks Increase or Decrease Productivity Differences?
Entropy, 2021 Do labor mobility and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms.
László Lőrincz
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