Assessing Demographic Changes and Income Inequalities: A Case Study of West Virginia

Yohannes G. Hailu, Tesfa G. Gebremedhin and Randall Jackson ()

No 35561, 2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This study investigates demographic change and income inequalities, and relationship between economic growth and income inequality in West Virginia. Income growth was positively related with population and employment growth, but is significantly and negatively related with income inequality. This indicates that higher income inequality is associated with slower economic growth.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35561

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