Determinants of inequality in Italy: An approach based on the Shapley decomposition

Martina Celidoni, Isabella Procidano and Luca Salmasi
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Martina Celidoni: Department of Economics, University of Padua

Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, 2011, vol. 1, issue 1, 63-69

Abstract: Inequality is a common concern, strongly perceived by people as well as by governments that redistribute resources through taxation and public expenditure. In order to design their redistributive policies, governments need information about the underlying factors explaining how resources are distributed and this paper addresses this topic. We propose an analysis of the inequality determinants in Italy using the Shapley value decomposition on pseudo-panel data and taking into account the geographical specificity of inequality.

Keywords: Inequality; Gini index; Shapley decomposition; Pseudo-panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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