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Decomposing US regional income inequality from 1969 to 2009

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  • Justin Doran
  • Declan Jordan

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This article analyses changes in levels and composition of income inequality among US counties from 1969 to 2009. It also decomposes inequality using the Theil coefficient into between-State and within-State inequality. The article finds that income inequality has increased in the period studied with between-State inequality decreasing and within-State inequality increasing. We subsequently decompose income inequality into the proportion arising from differences in productivity and employment–population ratios across counties. The results suggest that inequality arising from differentials in labour productivity has fallen over the period studied while those arising from employment–population ratio differences have increased.

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  • Justin Doran & Declan Jordan, 2016. "Decomposing US regional income inequality from 1969 to 2009," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(11), pages 781-784, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:23:y:2016:i:11:p:781-784
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1109030
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    1. Miguel A. Márquez & Elena Lasarte & Marcelo Lufin, 2019. "The Role of Neighborhood in the Analysis of Spatial Economic Inequality," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(1), pages 245-273, January.
    2. Venera Timiryanova & Dina Krasnoselskaya & Irina Lakman & Denis Popov, 2021. "Inter- and Intra-Regional Disparities in Russia: Factors of Uneven Economic Growth," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-31, December.
    3. Venera Timiryanova & Dina Krasnoselskaya & Natalia Kuzminykh, 2022. "Applying the Multilevel Approach in Estimation of Income Population Differences," Stats, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-32, December.
    4. Fathim Rashna Kallingal & Mohammed Firoz C, 2022. "Developing a methodological framework for capturing regional disparities in social development," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(5), pages 1085-1112, October.

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