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

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta

doi:10.1080/00343404.2014.884275

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“…Most work in this area has used cross-sectional models which are vulnerable to causality problems, so we use a panel data model and instrumental variable (IV) estimators to allay concerns about endogeneity (Partridge, 2005;Partridge & Rickman, 2008b;Rupasingha & Goetz, 2011). And it contributes to the developing literature on the sub-national dimensions of economic inequality and policy around inclusive growth (Florida & Mellander, 2014;Glaeser, Resseger, & Tobio, 2009;Turok, 2010).…”

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Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Lee

Sissons

2016

Environ Plan A

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There is growing concern in many developed economies that the benefits of economic growth are not shared equitably. This is particularly the case in the UK, where economic growth has been geographically uneven and often biased towards already affluent cities. Yet there is relatively little evidence on the relationship between growth and poverty in the UK. This paper addresses this gap with an analysis of the links between economic growth and poverty in British cities between 2000 -2008. We find little evidence that output growth reduced poverty. While growth was associated with wage increases at the top of the distribution, it was not associated with wage growth below the median. And there was no relationship between economic growth and the low skilled employment rate. These results suggest that growth in this period was far from inclusive.

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Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Lee

Sissons

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…First, the paper only deals with wage inequality and does not consider wealth or income inequality . FLORIDA and MELLANDER (2014) show that the geography of income inequality differs from the geography of wage inequality in US cities. It would be an important, but difficult, contribution to test whether this for the UK.…”

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“…However, British cities lack the most powerful levers to address and alleviate inequality through the tax and benefits system. A growing body of literature considers the determinants of urban inequality, with studies focusing on Canada (BOLTON and BREAU, 2012;BREAU et al 2014), the United States (GLAESER et al 2009;FLORIDA and MELLANDER, 2014) and Swedish local labour markets (KORPI, 2008). In the UK, work has considered employment polarisation (JONES and GREEN, 2009) and wage inequality (DICKEY, 2001;TAYLOR, 2006;DICKEY, 2007;STEWART, 2011), but only at a regional level.…”

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The Geography of Wage Inequality in British Cities

2015

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There is widespread concern about the scale and implications of urban inequality in Great Britain, but little evidence on which cities are the most unequal and why. This paper investigates patterns of wage inequality in 60 British cities. It has two principal goals: (1) to describe which cities are most unequal and (2) to assess the important determinants of inequality. The results show a distinct geography of wage inequality, the most unequal cities tend to be affluent and located in parts of the Greater South East of England. A central determinant of these patterns is the geography of highly skilled workers. Because of this, the geography of urban wage inequality reflects the geography of affluence more generally.JEL codes: R13; R10; J3; R23

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“…A large number of studies have documented the sharp rise in the inequality of nations over the past several decades (Atkinson 1975(Atkinson , 2015Card and DiNardo 2002;Stiglitz 2013;Piketty 2014). Other studies have documented the worsening geography of inequality across U.S. metros (Glaeser et al 2009;Baum-Snow and Pavan 2013;Florida and Mellander 2014).…”

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“…Our measure is based on the conventional Gini Coefficient measure and is from the 2008-2010 ACS. Glaeser et al (2009) and Florida and Mellander (2014) find a connection between inequality and the economic performance of metros. Since greater inequality implies a greater dispersion of incomes, we assume that it is likely to go along with greater spatial sorting and economic segregation.…”

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The Geography of Economic Segregation

Florida

Mellander

2018

Social Sciences

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This study examines the key factors that are associated with the geography of economic segregation across US metros. It connects the sociological literature on the extent and variation of economic segregation to the urban economics literature on the factors associated with urban and regional performance. It advances the hypothesis that economic segregation will be greater in larger, denser, more knowledge-based regions as well as in light of racial factors and income inequality. It utilizes measures of Income, Educational, and Occupational Segregation along with a combined measure of Overall Economic Segregation. Our findings are in line with the hypothesis and indicate that economic segregation is associated with larger, denser, more highly educated metros. Economic segregation is also to a certain extent related with race and ethnicity, commuting style, and income inequality.

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

Cited by 120 publications

References 22 publications

Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

The Geography of Wage Inequality in British Cities

The Geography of Economic Segregation

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