Publication Date

1-1-2000

DOI

10.17848/9780585301785

Abstract

In studying MSA data that link the characteristics of metropolitan economies to significant changes in income inequality, Madden is able to study changes in poverty rates, household income inequality, and wage inequality within 182 of the largest MSAs and to identify what she says are the three factors most likely to influence changes in income inequality in metropolitan areas.

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Contents

  1. Income Inequality, Earnings Inequality, and Poverty
  2. Why Poverty Rates and Income and Earnings Distributions Change
  3. The Data and the Variables
  4. Measuring Effects of MSA Characteristics on Income Distribution
  5. Sources of Household Income Inequality
  6. A More Detailed Study of Household Income and Individual Earnings Inequality
  7. Sources of MSA Poverty
  8. The Concentration of Poverty in the Central City
  9. The Role of the Macro Environment in Poverty and HouseholdIncome Inequality

ISBN

9780880992046 (cloth) ;9780880992039 (pbk.) ; 9780585301785 (ebook)

Subject Areas

LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Wages, health insurance and other benefits; Inequality; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; Regional policy and planning; Urban issues

Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas

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Madden, Janice F. 2000. Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9780585301785

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