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Spatial decomposition of inequality

This paper reviews the theory and application of decomposition techniques in the context of spatial inequality. It establishes some new theoretical results with potentially wide applicability, and examines empirical evidence drawn from a large number of countries.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2004/01

Classification
Wirtschaft
Index Numbers and Aggregation; Leading indicators
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Subject
inequality
index
decomposition
Regionale Disparität
Dekompositionsverfahren
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Shorrocks, Anthony
Wan, Guanghua
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Shorrocks, Anthony
  • Wan, Guanghua
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2004

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