The regional distribution of income inequality in the European Union between 1993 and 1998 is examined. The results obtained reveal the existence of a process of convergence in regional inequality levels over the period analysed. This was due basically to the reduction in income dispersion that...

This note investigates the spatial distribution of income inequality in the US over the period 1969 to 1999. Taking into account the methodological limitations of traditional convergence analysis, a non parametric approach is applied to examine the dynamics of the entire cross-sectional...

This note examines the level of polarization in the US state per capita income distribution during the period 1929 to 2005, using, for the first time in this context, the set of measures proposed by Esteban and Ray (1994) and Esteban et al. (2007). Our results show that income polarization has...

This article examines the spatial distribution of per capita carbon dioxide emissions in 140 countries during the period 1960 to 1999. To overcome the methodological limitations of conventional convergence analysis, we have applied a nonparametric approach, which allows to study the dynamics of...

In this study we explore the evolution and origin of international welfare inequality in a sample of 39 countries between 1970 and 1998. To achieve this aim, different theoretical results taken from the literature on personal income distribution have been applied to an additive decomposition of...

This note examines industrial concentration in the regions of the European Union during the period following the implementation of the Single Market. To achieve this objective, we have applied a new methodology in this literature based on the second degree inverse stochastic dominance concept....