A evolução das disparidades regionais no Rio Grande do Sul: uma aplicação de matrizes de Markov

• Autor(a) principal: Stülp, Valter José
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Fochezatto, Adelar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Nova Economia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/view/424
• topic: regional economy; income convergence; Markov model; the economy of Rio Grande do Sul.; economia regional; convergência; matrizes de Markov; economia do Rio Grande do Sul.

This paper analyses the regional convergence of the per capita income in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. A distributional function of the per capita income is estimated for the years of 1985 and 1999. Five income classes are defined. Based on these two functions, a Markov transitional probability matrix is estimated. The results indicate a process of income convergence toward the state average. In the long run, the five income classes would be reduced to three, with the disappearance of the lowest and the highest income classes.