CONVERGENCE OF BLACK HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN LARGEST U.S. CITIES

Edward Nissan and George Carter

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 1998, vol. 10, issue 1, 19-27

Abstract: This paper investigates the widening (divergence) or narrowing (convergence) of black income as well as black income proportionate to all income using median family income over the 1980s. Analysis is undertaken at the regional level using the coefficient of variation and analysis of variance, and at the city level using a linear model. The linear model, in addition to providing a measure for divergence or convergence, provides a measure of residual change which distinguishes city performance above or below expectation. At the regional level, the general result is divergence of black income born 1979 to 1989, while at the city level, the general results were divergence for black income, but a convergence in black income proportionate to all income.

Date: 1998
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