Income Dispersion Between States of Different Regions In the United States, Including Comparisons With Australia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2001

School

Interdisciplinary Studies and Professional Development

Abstract

This paper examines income dispersion among the states within the regions in the United States. A profile from 1929 to 1997 is provided. A simple equitable distributional criterion is used whereby each state receives a share of the total population comparable to its share of income. The dispersion measure employed is the coefficient of variation for each region on a yearly basis. The results provide evidence that for most regions, a substantial declining trend in income dispersion among component states is observed up to the early to mid-1970s, followed by a slight rise in the 1980s with slightly diminishing trends in most recent years. A comparison is also provided for regional income inequality in the United States with regional income inequality in Australia.

Publication Title

Australasian Journal of Regional Studies

Volume

7

Issue

2

First Page

151

Last Page

165

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