INCOME INEQUALITY AND INNER AREAS. A STUDY ON THE ITALIAN CASE

Graziella Bonanno, Filippo Domma () and Lucia Errico ()
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Filippo Domma: Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance 'Giovanni Anania', University of Calabria, Rende (Italy)
Lucia Errico: Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance 'Giovanni Anania', University of Calabria, Rende (Italy)

No 202203, Working Papers from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of ‘inner areas’ on income inequality of the Italian municipalities during the period 2012-2018. In doing so, we employ the Beta GLMM approach to overcome the limits arising from the use of the Gaussian distribution in the analysis of income, as suggested by the existing empirical literature. Our main results show that inner areas of Southern Italy seem to have a higher concentration index than the internal areas located in the North. However, in the South, the odds ratio of the average concentration of inner areas appears to be lower than that in central zones. This finding seems to be driven by the peripheral and ultra-peripheral municipalities, highlighting the importance of analysing the phenomenon under scrutiny at a more disaggregated level.

Keywords: Inequality; Inner areas; Italy; Beta GLMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 O15 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2022-05
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