,,Population Mobility and Income Inequality in California

Population Mobility and Income Inequality in California


 

Publication Date: May 2001

Publisher: Public Policy Institute of California

Author(s): Heather N. Royer; Deborah Reed; Mary C. Daly

Research Area: Economics

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

Examines trends in family income inequality through 1999, focusing in particular on the relationship between inequality and population movement into and out of California. Finds that international immigration explains about one-third of California's growing inequality over the past three decades, while the substantial exodus from the state in the 1990s had little effect, since out-migrants tended to be in families at all levels of the income distribution.