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This paper discusses region wealth size distributions, through their member cities aggregated tax income. As an illustration, the official data of the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has been considered, for all Italian municipalities, over the period 2007–2011. Yearly data of the aggregated tax income is transformed into a few indicators: the Gini, Theil, and Herfindahl–Hirschman indices. On one hand, the relative interest of each index is discussed. On the other hand, numerical results confirm that Italy is divided into very different regional realities, a few which are specifically outlined. This shows the interest of transforming data in an adequate manner and of comparing such indices.
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The display of the distribution characteristics of these cities for the 110 provinces would obviously request 110 Tables (or Figures). They are not given here, but any province case can be available from the authors—upon request.
Thereafter, the word “financial” is dropped out.
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This paper is part of scientific activities in COST Action IS1104, “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”
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This Appendix contains the discussed economic indices of the 20 regional cases, in Tables 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.
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Cerqueti, R., Ausloos, M. Statistical assessment of regional wealth inequalities: the Italian case. Qual Quant 49, 2307–2323 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-014-0111-y
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