Income Inequality Correlates with Social Network Fragmentation in Towns (IMAGE)

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Income Inequality Correlates with Social Network Fragmentation in Towns

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Data from two Hungarian towns, i. e. Goedoelloe (b) and Ajka (c), show that economic inequality (expressed by the Gini index) is higher in Goedoelloe, where social networks are strongly separated. Data were retrieved from iWiW, an early online social network once used by around 40 percent of the population in Hungary. Urban geographies turn out to play a key role in this relationship.

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Nature Communications (18 Feb 2021); the authors of the paper

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