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Measuring regional inequality : to weight or not to weight? / Gluschenko, Konstantin.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring regional inequality
T2 - to weight or not to weight?
AU - Gluschenko, Konstantin
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Measuring regional inequality: to weight or not to weight? Spatial Economic Analysis. When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by regions’ proportion of the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such an approach is conceptually inconsistent, yielding an estimate of interpersonal inequality among the whole population of the country rather than an estimate of regional inequality. Nevertheless, as a measure of interpersonal inequality, such an estimate is very rough (even misleading) and does not always have an intuitive interpretation. Moreover, population-weighted inequality indices do not meet the requirements for an adequate measure of inequality.
AB - Measuring regional inequality: to weight or not to weight? Spatial Economic Analysis. When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by regions’ proportion of the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such an approach is conceptually inconsistent, yielding an estimate of interpersonal inequality among the whole population of the country rather than an estimate of regional inequality. Nevertheless, as a measure of interpersonal inequality, such an estimate is very rough (even misleading) and does not always have an intuitive interpretation. Moreover, population-weighted inequality indices do not meet the requirements for an adequate measure of inequality.
KW - inequality axioms
KW - inequality index
KW - weighting by population
KW - Williamson coefficient of variation
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U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2017.1343491
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2017.1343491
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85024474876
VL - 13
SP - 36
EP - 59
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
SN - 1742-1772
IS - 1
ER -
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