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at the broad NUTS 1 level, which is compatible with a great deal of increasing polarization

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JEL Classification: D31, D63 and R12

interregional convergence, within an axiomatic normative context. In addition, the use of

SPANISH TERRITORIES

Rafael Salas

from the European Commission.

inequality decomposition possible, and help us better understand the evolution of the between-

MULTILEVEL INTERTERRITORIAL CONVERGENCE AND ADDITIVE

and the within-groups inequality terms (and convergence) when the number of regions

In this paper we justify the use of the between-groups S-convex relative inequality to measure

Key Words: Inequality, convergence, regions and subgroups decomposition.

observed at this level.

(1) This project has benefited from support through a FIES project and the Contract #ERBCHRXCT940647

March 1999

increases. We have detected a weak interterritorial divergence process in Spain in the period

1980-1995 using the Eurostat per capita GDP data at all levels, although it is mainly generated

*Visiting Professor at the Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,

additive decomposable inequality indices makes the additive multidimensional (and multilevel)

C/ Madrid, 126, 28903 Getafe (Spain). Fax: 34-91-6249875. E-mail: salas@eco.uc3m.es

MULTIDIMENSIONAL INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION: AN APPLICATION TO

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