RT Journal Article
T1 Assessing Territorial Units’ Contribution to Convergence Beyond Aggregate Measures: The Role of Neighbourhood
A1 Bárcena-Martín, Elena María
A1 García-Pardo, Francisca
A1 Muñoz Fernández, Ana
A1 Pérez-Moreno, Salvador Jesús
K1 Economía regional
AB This paper provides an analytical framework for the study of spatial income dynamics using the classical measures of σ-convergence (reduction in dispersion) and β-convergence (poor areas grow more quickly than rich ones) linked by a re-ranking metric and reinterpreted based on the ‘leave no one behind’ principle. Our approach allows identifying the contribution of each territorial unit to each of the three facets of distributional change (σ-convergence, β-convergence, and re-ranking), as well as gauging the part of each component of distributional change that corresponds to geographically neighbouring and non-neighbouring units. We illustrate our proposal by examining convergence across the census tracts of Malaga – the sixth most populated city of Spain – before and after the COVID 19 pandemic. We find that while income convergence across Malaga’s census tracts tended to improve over the period 2015–2019, this process was interrupted during the first year of the pandemic, affecting some specific census tracts. We examine our outcomes by grouping the results into deciles and districts made up of specific census tracts. Finally, we analyse the impact of neighbours on regional convergence and each of its components. This spatial decomposition highlights the crucial role of the spatial component in the convergence process.
PB Springer
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35807
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35807
LA eng
NO Bárcena-Martín, E., García-Pardo, F., Muñoz-Fernández, A. et al. Assessing Territorial Units’ Contribution to Convergence Beyond Aggregate Measures: The Role of Neighbourhood. Soc Indic Res 175, 715–739 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03440-6
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 3 mar 2026