Income and Inequality: The Role of the Service Sector in the Changing Distribution of Income

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Bloomsbury Academic, Jun 23, 1992 - Business & Economics - 176 pages

The United States is becoming an information-based, service economy with fewer middle-income jobs than in an industrial economy. How does increasing service sector employment affect community income and thus social well-being? This well-documented study assesses the impact of changing levels of employment in the service and manufacturing sectors on the level and distribution of community income.

The study includes both analyses of low-wage and high-wage service and manufacturing sectors and analyses of major segments of the service sector, including business services and retail trade. Measures of social well-being include changes in community aggregate income, aggregate wages and salaries, distribution of income within the community, and the community's position in the regional hierarchy. Particular attention is given to differences in impact on rural and urban communities. The book will be of interest to those concerned with rural economic development and issues related to inequality and economic and industrial change.

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Contents

A Survey
19
A National Study of the Impact of Service Sector Employment
89
Summary Conclusions and Policy Implications
103
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aggregate wages analysis average canonical correlation analysis central place areas centrally located places centroid Change in Aggregate Change in Low-Wage Change in Number Change in Population cluster cluster analysis community income consumer services decline decrease Descriptive Statistics DFFITS Distance from Interstate distribution of income Dun and Bradstreet economy employment growth estimated family income growth in low-wage High-Wage Manufacturing high-wage service sector impact income distribution income hierarchy income inequality income levels increased numbers indicate Interstate Highway low-wage and high-wage Low-Wage Manufacturing Low-Wage Services lower income group Manufacturing 1978 measure median metropolitan counties Mid-Atlantic region nomic nonmetropolitan counties Number of Employees number of families part-time percent Population Size 1970 positive producer services regression coefficients remoteness retail trade robust regression rural areas sample service and manufacturing service industries service sector growth social well-being Stanback and Noyelle statistical Table tend U.S. Bureau unrelated individuals wages and salaries wholesale trade workers z-test z-value

About the author (1992)

CATHY KASSAB is a research associate with the Center for Health Policy Research at Pennsylvania State University.

Bibliographic information

TitleIncome and Inequality: The Role of the Service Sector in the Changing Distribution of Income
Contributions in Economics and Economic History
AuthorCathy Kassab
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1992
ISBN0313277796, 9780313277795
Length176 pages
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