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| Author: | Nielsen, F. Alderson, A. S. |
| Title: | The Kuznets curve and the great U-turn : income inequality in U.S. counties, 1970 to 1990 |
| Journal: | American Sociological Review
1997 : FEB, VOL. 62:1, p. 12-33 |
| Index terms: | INCOME DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examines the determinants of inequality in the distribution of family income in approximately 3,100 counties of the United States in 1970, 1980, and 1990. Such a study provides a window on global trends in social inequality during the period, which spans the tail end of the Kuznets curve and the more recent upswing in income inequality. Results from random-effects regression models that control for unmeasured heterogeneity among states reveal the continued importance of the Kuznetsian pattern of declining inequality with economic development, a positive effect of urbanization on inequality, a declining positive impact of sector dualism, and increasing positive effect of educational heterogeneity, and persistent effect of racial dualism. |
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