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Title:
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The spatial inequality of wage income in Barcelona Metropolitan Area
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Author:
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Madariaga, Rafa; Martori, Joan Carles; Oller, Ramon
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca Distribució de la Població, l'Activitat i la Renda |
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Notes:
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The measure and estimation of income levels in Barcelona Metropolitan Area (BMA) goes back a long way. Using
different approaches and focusing on different municipalities, there is a lot of work in the field. The majority of the
literature has focused on the estimation of income levels using variables related to consumption. The empirical evidence
on wage differentials has shown an important growth during 80’s and 90’s especially in United Kingdom and USA. Less
is known on spatial distribution of inequality. This paper presents a new data set for analyzing spatial distribution of
wage income. This data is obtained by matching Wage Structure Survey (WSS) with data from Census disaggregated
by census tracts. In this way we have a unique data set with wage incomes for every census track for 36 municipalities
belonging to BMA. We develop a descriptive analysis of spatial distribution, testing for spatial autocorrelation and use
the family of Generalised Entropy Indices to measure inequality. Properties of the index allow us to decompose
inequality into inter and intra-municipality measures. Since we have two cross-sectional data for WSS (1995-2002) we
can also analyze the evolution of the inequality in this period of economic growth.
Key words: spatial distribution of wages, spatial autocorrelation, inequality indices. |
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Subject(s):
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-Desigualtats econòmiques regionals
-Salaris Barcelona (Catalunya : Àrea metropolitana)
-Barcelona (Catalunya : Àrea metropolitana) Condicions econòmiques |
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Aquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commons
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Document type:
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Working Paper |
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