Measuring regional inequality: to weight or not to weight? Spatial Economic Analysis. When
estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by regions' …

Many publications on inter-regional inequality use weighting by region's share in the
national population in estimating an inequality index. This paper demonstrates that, first …

Spatial inequality measures should take into account the geographical position of the data of
reference if the focus is on the spatial aspects of territorial inequality. However, these …

This paper reviews the theory and application of the decomposition methods commonly
used to measure the impact of spatial location on income inequality. It establishes some new …

Traditional inequality measures fail to capture the geographical distribution of income. The
failure to consider such distribution implies that, holding income constant, different spatial …

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the
world: China, India, the United States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980 …

Spatial inequality has drawn renewed scholarly interests and societal concerns. This paper
reviews the literature on regional inequality, with a focus on spatiality of regional …

The paper concerns selected theoretical and empirical aspects of the decomposition of
income inequality by spatially defined subgroups. Special consideration is given to the …

In ancient Japan, personal income was measured in terms of a “Koku.” One Koku was the
amount of rice required to feed one person for a year, about 140 kg or 13 ounces per day …

The paper looks at the sensitivity of commonly used income inequality measures to changes
in the ranking, size and number of regions into which a country is divided. During the …