Fitting Regional Income Distributions in the European Union

Maria Grazia Pittau

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2005, vol. 67, issue 2, 135-161

Abstract: Cross‐sectional distribution of per capita (log) GDP across the European Union regions from 1977 to 1996 is analysed. Kernel density estimates reveal a multimodal structure of the distribution during the 1970s and early 1980s, and a tendency towards unimodality since the mid‐1980s. The distribution is further analysed by a mixture of normal densities. A two well‐separated component mixture fits the distributions in the 1970s and early 1980s. These two clusters tend to converge, supporting the idea of a process of catching up. In the mid‐1990s, a small group of very rich regions is generated by a separated component.

Date: 2005
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