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Metropolization and Higher Education as Factors of Community Wellbeing Differentiation: Preliminary Decomposition of Inequalities

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  • Wlodzimierz Okrasa

    (Central Statisical Office
    Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)

  • Grzegorz Gudaszewski

    (Central Statisical Office)

Abstract

Growing concentration of higher education processes in big urban settings has multiple consequences both for the metropolitan area themselves and for their surroundings as well. This paper takes on the question of whether and how these processes affect the level of welfare of local communities functioning in directly surrounding areas (non-metropolitan). In particular, if these processes contribute more to diminishing or to increasing disparities in these areas. To this end, the inequality of multi-dimensional local deprivation index (interpreted as a measure of welfare à rebours) is calculated on the basis of data from the Local Data Bank using Theil’s index.

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  • Wlodzimierz Okrasa & Grzegorz Gudaszewski, 2013. "Metropolization and Higher Education as Factors of Community Wellbeing Differentiation: Preliminary Decomposition of Inequalities," Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Ekonomia, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 44(2), pages 231-260.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpn:umkanc:2013:p:231-260
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    Keywords

    local deprivation; spatial distribution of deprivation in education; spatial structure of inequality;
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    JEL classification:

    • I - Health, Education, and Welfare
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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