On the Issue of Weighting in Interregional Studies (in Response to K.P. Gluschenko)

Marina Yuryevna Malkina ()
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Marina Yuryevna Malkina: Lobachevsky State University of Nizhniy Novgorod

Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, 2016, issue 1, 163-184

Abstract: This is a response to the article by K. P. Gluschenko in the journal «Spatial Economics» (2015, No. 4), where the author criticized the weighting in interregional studies, and the interregional inequality studies in particular. Examining in detail the arguments of the reviewed author, this paper shows that both approaches (weighted and unweighted) have a right to exist and are aimed at different research problems. The unweighted approach is used for estimating interregional inequality and its degree (severity), while the weighted approach reveals the extent of the problem and the income distribution disparity relative to the interregional distribution of some other parameter’s (e.g., population) values. The article describes a number of basic and additional arguments of weighting in interregional studies: it is necessary in assessing the extent of income redistribution, carrying out the decomposition of the disparity indicators and in determining the relationship between the disparity and the population dynamics and various spillover effects. The article is based on an expansive sample of both foreign and domestic literature focusing on different aspects of interregional inequality.

Keywords: region; ?; income; ?; population; ?; inequality; ?; interregional; inequality; ?; Gini; index; ?; Hoover; index; ?; Theil; index; ?; coefficient; of; variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.14530/se.2016.1.163-184

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