The impact of public transport on US metropolitan wage inequality Academic Article

abstract

• This article presents a wage inequality analysis for 158 large US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). The analysis is concerned with whether public transport has a detectable influence on 1990 levels of wage equality. Because public transport systems are generally designed to link residences with employment locations, higher levels of service provision, all other factors being equal, should be associated with higher employment rates and more uniform distributions of earnings. Few analyses, however, have attempted to evaluate public policies that affect wage distributions. The results of this research provide a macroscopic view of the effectiveness of urban transport investments with respect to urban wage inequality.

authors

• Sanchez, Thomas

published proceedings

• URBAN STUDIES

altmetric score

• 3.5

author list (cited authors)

• Sanchez, T. W.

citation count

• 28

complete list of authors

• Sanchez, TW

publication date

• March 2002

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Urban Studies  Journal

keywords

• 10 Reduced Inequalities
• 33 Built Environment And Design
• 3304 Urban And Regional Planning
• 44 Human Society

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/00420980220112766

start page

• 423

end page

• 436

volume

• 39

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980220112766