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Income Inequality Across Regions Over Time
Author(s) -
NISSAN EDWARD,
CARTER GEORGE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2257.1993.tb00128.x
Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , economics , demographic economics , income inequality metrics , population , income distribution , income shares , state (computer science) , demography , mathematics , sociology , mathematical analysis , algorithm
This paper provides a profile of regional income inequality using a distributional criterion whereby a state's share of total income equals its share of total population. The results for 1929 to 1990 show that inequality persisted among regions with a substantial declining trend up to 1979 and a slight rise thereafter. On the other hand, equality among states within their regions is found to have been the condition since 1929.