Income Inequality Across Regions Over Time

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-1993

Department

Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs

Abstract

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.

Publication Title

Growth and Change

Volume

24

Issue

3

First Page

303

Last Page

319

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