CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF REGIONAL INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS AND WELFARE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BISHOP, JA; FORMBY, JP; THISTLE, PD
• 署名单位: University of Alabama System; Western Michigan University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.2307/2109877
• 发表日期: 1994-05
• 页码: 228-235
• 关键词: states; south

摘要

Regional income distributions are analyzed and tested for convergence and divergence in the 1970s. The methodology is the same as that recently used to show the almost complete convergence of the South and Non-South. This paper disaggregates the Non-South into major regions consisting of the West, Midwest and Northeast. Tests for rank dominance reveal surprising results. Income distributions in the major regions of the Non-South were equivalent in 1969, and the South was uniformly dominated. Fundamental changes in the 1970s resulted in the West rank dominating the Midwest, which dominated the South, which in turn dominated the Northeast.