@techreport{Heshmati2004Continental,
abstract = {Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global,
continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions
defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic
disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or subcontinent.
The empirical results for data availability reasons are mainly based on the second
half of the 20th century. The review covers a whole range of measures and methods
frequently employed in empirical analysis of the global and regional income inequality and
income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts are
presented and empirical results from different case studies are discussed. Finally, these
results are contrasted to those obtained based on the WIID covering the same period and
group of countries.},
author = {Almas Heshmati},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C10; N30; I30; D63; D31; 330; income inequality; inequality indices; income distribution; continents; regions; Regionale Einkommensverteilung; Regionale Disparit\"{a}t; Disparit\"{a}tsmass; Einkommensverteilung; Welt},
language = {eng},
number = {1271},
title = {Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20537},
year = {2004}
}
