The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

Luis Ayala, Javier Martín-Román () and Juan Vicente-Perdiz ()

No 513, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a selected sample of OECD countries. We provide new evidence over a more varied group of countries and a more recent period than in previous studies. We perform different types of decompositions to isolate the contribution of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population. The results show a generalized increase in income inequality, with an interesting “reducing effect†on this trend due to inter-territorial population movements.

Keywords: income inequality; regional inequality; decomposition methods; counterfactual analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2020-01
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