...Tindara Addabbo; Rosa María García-Fernández; Carmen María Llorca-Rodríguez; Anna Maccagnan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the change in the Italian and Spanish wage polarization degree in a time of economic crisis, taking into account the factors affecting labor force...

...Edward Nissan; Shahdad Naghshpour Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the connection between corruption and ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of variance and regression expectation models were used to identify groups of countries...

... The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary least squares (OLS) and then with generalized method of moments (GMM). The principal explanatory variables for inequality and redistribution in the study are ethnic and religious polarization...