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- Title
URBAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND THE URBAN HIERARCHY-EQUALITY HYPOTHESIS: A COMMENT.
- Authors
Nord, Stephen
- Abstract
The article presents a comment on a research paper by the economic theorists, Gasper Garofalo and Michael S. Fogarty, supporting empirical evidence that suggest the existence of an efficiency-equity trade-off in the growth and development of cities. The author remarks that the premises of their argument is two interrelated hypotheses which relate to agglomeration economies and the amenity structure of cities. First, the productivity agglomeration hypothesis argues the productivity increases in skilled labor rise more rapidly than unskilled labor as urban size increases so that city size possesses an inequality effect by generating a wider skilled-unskilled wage differential. Second, the amenity-compensation hypothesis argues an independent, non-linear relationship between income level and inequality that produces an equalizing effect at lower incomes and an inequality effect at higher income levels. The author here relates these hypothesis to and tests them for the inequality in racial earnings.
- Subjects
INCOME inequality; URBAN economics; URBAN growth; AGGLOMERATION (Materials); LABOR supply -- Social aspects; HYPOTHESIS; EQUALITY; GAROFALO, Gasper; FOGARTY, Michael S.
- Publication
Review of Economics & Statistics, 1982, Vol 64, Issue 3, p537
- ISSN
0034-6535
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1925960