Isolating Neighborhood Components of Regional Inequality: Illustration for the Spanish Case

Volume: 41, Issue: 5, Pages: 0160017616665670
Published: Sep 1, 2018
Abstract
Regional disparities have been measured mainly using a variety of concentration statistics applied to spatial data. This article modifies a factor decomposition of the Theil index of inequality allowing to assess which part of regional income inequalities could be due to neighborhood features. The proposal is illustrated for the case of the Spanish peninsular provinces during the period 1981–2011. It is shown that the comparison of inequality...
Paper Details
Title
Isolating Neighborhood Components of Regional Inequality: Illustration for the Spanish Case
Published Date
Sep 1, 2018
Volume
41
Issue
5
Pages
0160017616665670
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