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

Richard Florida () and Charlotta Mellander
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Richard Florida : University of Toronto

No 304, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper examines the geographic variation in inequality, and it distinguishes between wage and income inequality. Wage inequality is associated with skills, human capital, technology and metro size - in line with the literature on skill-biased technical change. Income inequality is instead more closely associated with race, poverty, lower levels of unionization and lower taxes. This suggests that income inequality is a product not only of skill-biased technical change, but also of the enduring legacy of race and poverty at the bottom of the socio-economic order, as well as the unraveling of the post-war social compact between capital and labor.

Keywords: inequality; income; wage; high-tech; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O10 O33 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2013-04-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-ltv and nep-pbe
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Journal Article: The Geography of Inequality: Difference and Determinants of Wage and Income Inequality across US Metros (2016)
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