The Geography of Inequality: Difference and Determinants of Wage and Income Inequality across US Metros

Florida R. and Mellander C. The geography of inequality: difference and determinants of wage and income inequality across US metros, Regional Studies. This paper examines the geographic variation in wage inequality and income inequality across US metros. The findings indicate that the two are quite...

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Published in:Regional studies 2016, Vol.50 (1), p.79-92
Main Authors: Florida, Richard, Mellander, Charlotta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alta tecnología
Compétences
Desigualdad
Documentation
Einkommen
Geography
Habilidades
Haute technologie
High-technology
Hochtechnologie
Households
Human capital
Income
Income inequality
Inequality
Ingresos
Inégalité
Labor unions
Lohn
Metropolitan areas
Poverty
Qualifikationen
Race
Radicalism
Revenu
Salaire
Salario
Skills
Socioeconomics
Studies
Subways
Ungleichheit
Unionization
United States
Wage
Wage differential
不均
所得
技术
薪资
高科技
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Summary:Florida R. and Mellander C. The geography of inequality: difference and determinants of wage and income inequality across US metros, Regional Studies. This paper examines the geographic variation in wage inequality and income inequality across US metros. The findings indicate that the two are quite different. Wage inequality is closely associated with skills, human capital, technology and metro size, in line with the literature, but these factors are only weakly associated with income inequality. Furthermore, wage inequality explains only 15% of income inequality across metros. Income inequality is more closely associated with unionization, race and poverty. No relationship is found between income inequality and average incomes and only a modest relationship between it and the percentage of high-income households.
ISSN:0034-3404
1360-0591
1360-0591
DOI:10.1080/00343404.2014.884275