Public Employment, Welfare Transfers, and Economic Well-Being across Local Populations: Does a Lean and Mean Government Benefit the Masses?

Lobao, Linda; Hooks, Gregory

doi:10.1353/sof.2004.0016

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“…In this article we build most directly on a fourth literature that focuses on the determinants of family and household income inequality within U.S. counties (Tomaskovic-Devey and Roscigno 1996;Nielsen andAlderson 1997, 2001;Lobao and Hooks 2003;Moller 2003) or within U.S. states (Jacobs 1985). We study trends in inequality of the distribution of family income in nearly 3,100 U.S. counties over the four decennial censuses from 1970 to 2000.…”

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Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in U.S. Counties, 1970–2000

Möller¹,

Alderson²,

Nielsen³

2009

American Journal of Sociology

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The upswing in economic inequality that has affected a number of advanced industrial societies in the late 20th century has been particularly conspicuous in the United States. The authors explore its causes using data on the distribution of family income in 3,098 U. S. counties in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. The authors build a model of within-county income inequality that assumes that distribution processes involving labor market and sociodemographic variables operate primarily at the county level and those involving the political and institutional context operate primarily at the state level. Multilevel methods are used to distinguish county cross-sectional, state cross-sectional, and longitudinal effects on inequality. The authors find that, when features of the state-level institutional and political context are associated with inequality, these effects are larger longitudinally than cross-sectionally. A range of other factors, including economic development, labor force changes, shifts in the racial/ethnic and gender composition of the labor force, educational expansion, and urbanization are found to have comparatively large effects, both longitudinally and cross-sectionally. INEQUALITY TRENDS IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURYOne of the most intriguing socioeconomic trends of the last decades of the 20th century is the upswing in income inequality that was first noted 1 The authors would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of Phil Gibbs, David Lowery, the late Rachel Rosenfeld, John Stephens, and the AJS reviewers. Direct all correspondence to Stephanie Moller,

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Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in U.S. Counties, 1970–2000

Möller¹,

Alderson²,

Nielsen³

2009

American Journal of Sociology

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152

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“…Recent studies have begun examining exactly this question by assessing the relationship between public policies and various indicators of a society's well being, including divorce rates (Buckingham 2000), poverty rates (Kenworthy 1999;Lobao and Hooks 2003), economic performance (Atkinson 1999) and even levels of happiness (Radcliff 2001). This literature directly addresses the fundamental notion that the study of public policies is ultimately justified by the significance of the final impact or outcome in the real world.…”

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Public Policies and Suicide Rates in the American States

Flavin

Radcliff

2008

Soc Indic Res

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“…Tilly (1984) concluded that comparisons between macro-sociological and meso-level perspective could serve the purpose of finding variations in different processes and structures leading to identical expressions of causality. Lobao and Hooks (2003) argued that using counties (meso domains) as unit of analysis for studying subnational inequality increases our understanding on the role of institutions on the individual, and vice versa. That is, studying social phenomena at meso domain bridges the gap of our understanding on the interaction between individuals (micro-approach) and societies (macro-approach).…”

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“…Henceforth, region is not only a fixed geographic entity but it also constitutes a space of dynamic structural arrangements. On the other hand Lobao and Hooks (2003) defined geographic location as an external factor to social processes constituting fixed spatial scales. Examining the determinants of inequality in standard geographic scales has an undisputed diagnostic value.…”

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Regional Development, World System's Taxonomies and Inequality: A Meso-Domain Approach

Zougris

Gee²,

Dimitrios³

2015

IJRD

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Limited research has been done about the applicability of World-Systems Theory (WST) on meso-sociological domains. This paper discusses the theoretical framework of the WST spatial divisions, applies it in subnational geographic domains, and examines the phenomenon of spatial income inequality across the Illinois' counties. We argue that the International Journal of Regional DevelopmentISSN 2373-9851 2015, Vol. 2, No. 1 40Human Development Index (HDI) could serve as a suitable classification measure of WST regional taxonomies. Our findings indicate equivalence of structural classification between local and global geographical domains at the state of Illinois. Also our analysis on spatial inequality supports the findings of vanguard studies of the field suggesting a negative association between rurality and development, as well as an inverse relationship between rurality and income inequality at a county level.

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Public Employment, Welfare Transfers, and Economic Well-Being across Local Populations: Does a Lean and Mean Government Benefit the Masses?

Cited by 59 publications

References 68 publications

Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in U.S. Counties, 1970–2000

Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in U.S. Counties, 1970–2000

Public Policies and Suicide Rates in the American States

Regional Development, World System's Taxonomies and Inequality: A Meso-Domain Approach

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