Inequality and Employment Resilience: An Analysis of Spanish Municipalities during the Great Recession

IF 1.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

International Regional Science Review Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/0160017620957056

Fabian Geelhoedt, Vicente Royuela, David Castells‐Quintana

引用次数: 16

Abstract

In this paper we study an association almost neglected in the literature, that between income inequality and resilience. In particular, we explore the response of employment rates in the face of the crisis of 2008 and how income inequality levels may have affected this response. To do so, we construct two measures of employment resilience—resistance and recoverability—using data on total employment and self-employment for 995 Spanish municipalities during the Great Recession. Our results provide evidence of the threats that high levels of inequality pose for employment resilience, showing that average income is the most important mediating factor of this association.

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不平等与就业弹性:大衰退期间西班牙市政当局的分析

在这篇论文中，我们研究了一个在文献中几乎被忽视的联系，即收入不平等和韧性之间的联系。特别是，我们探讨了就业率在2008年危机面前的反应，以及收入不平等水平如何影响这种反应。为此，我们利用大衰退期间995个西班牙城市的总就业和自营职业数据，构建了两种衡量就业弹性的指标——抵抗力和可恢复性。我们的研究结果为高度不平等对就业弹性构成的威胁提供了证据，表明平均收入是这种关联的最重要中介因素。

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International Regional Science Review Multiple-

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4.50

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13.00%

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