Cities and Inequality

Alessandra Michelangeli and Eugenio Peluso

No 13/2016, Working Papers from University of Verona, Department of Economics

Abstract: We propose an innovative methodology to measure inequality between cities. If an even distribution of amenities across cities is assumed to increase the average well-being in a given country, inequality between cities can be evaluated through a multidimensional index of the Atkinson (1970) type. This index is shown to be decomposabe into the sum of inequality indices computed on the marginal distributions of the amenities across cities, plus a residual term accounting for their correlation. We apply this methodology to assess inequality between Italian cities in terms of the distribution of public infrastructures, local services, economic and environmental conditions.

Keywords: Inequality; inequality aversion; social welfare; city (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2016-08
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