More on Non-White Poverty and Economic Growth in the United States

Gary Hoover, Mehmet Yaya and Sondra R. Collins
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Sondra R. Collins: University of Alabama

Journal of Income Distribution, 2011, vol. 20, issue 1, 63-82

Abstract: We use Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR), to explore the impact of three different measures of economic activity – growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment, and manufacturing employment – on poverty among whites, blacks and Hispanics in the United States. This analysis is unique in that we further disag- gregate the data, by looking at the impact of growth across racial/ethnic groups in four census regions. We find that the impacts of the various measures of economic activity vary greatly by the group and the region. In particular, Hispanic poverty tends to be strongly related to changes in the unemployment rate, while white poverty tends to be strongly related to changes in manufacturing.

Keywords: regional poverty; racial differences; policy analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 I39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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