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APresentation on:
“ THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ON WAGE
INEQUALITY.”- a paper by Thomas w. Sanchez, (March 2001)
Prepared by:
AKASH KHANAL
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Presentation Outlines
• Introduction• Objective• Analyses• Methodology• Results• Conclusion
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Introduction
• the level of income inequality in the US is increasing • US is becoming “two separate societies”• public transport services can be seen as a product of
upper-income groups responding to the mobility needs of lower-income groups
• public transport system development in the US has resulted from the organized efforts of low-income persons.
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Objective
• wage inequality analysis for 158 large US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
• To test the significance of public transport as a public policy mechanism with possible implications for urban income and wage inequality in the US.
• To provide a macroscopic view of the effectiveness of urban transport investments with respect to urban wage inequality.
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Analyses1. Wage Inequality MeasuresGINI RATIO• The Gini ratio is the relationship between the cumulative proportion
of population (CPP) and the cumulative proportion of earnings (CPE).
• Plotting CPP versus CPE for an equal earnings distribution produces a 45-degree line.
• Unequal earnings distributions result in a more curved line (i.e. a Lorenz curve), with the difference in areas between the line of equality and the Lorenz curve indicating the degree of earnings inequality.
• A ratio of zero indicates a perfectly equal distribution, while a ratio of one indicates the highest level of inequality.
• BUT, the Gini ratio does not express how incomes are concentrated by class or income category.
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Analyses2. Public Transport• links workers with employment location• the transit network, origins (residential locations) and destinations
(nonresidential locations) create zones of travel demand and supply.• Demand tends to be a function of socioeconomic characteristics most
closely related to income levels (i.e. vehicle ownership rates) and population density.
• If transport mobility affects employment opportunity, then income and wage levels should also be positively affected by improved transport mobility.
• All other factors being equal, public transport should be associated with higher employment rates and more uniform distributions of earnings.
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Analyses
3. Wage effects• the requirement of transport mobility during the job
search process, work commute and competition for higher-paying jobs.
• Reliable personal transport is needed on a consistent basis to maintain the employment.
• the level of job access has an impact on earnings levels• mobility inequality is strongly tied to income inequality,
producing detectable negative social impacts
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Methodology
• A Hausman test was used to test the endogenity of metropolitan income levels, household structure and levels of transit supply.
• The initial model specified three endogenous variables influenced by previous income distribution analyses and by Galster’s (1998) econometric model of urban opportunity.
• Factors affecting urban income distribution:i) Social and demographic ii) Economiciii) Spatial iv) Public Policy
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Methodology• The first-stage equation to estimate household income
level is:
• The following equation was used to predict the proportion of female-headed households in metropolitan areas.
• Transit supply was initially specified as an endogenous variable.
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Methodology
• It was assumed that there is a linear relationship between population size and wage inequality.
• The resulting 2SLS model takes the form:
• The empirical model specified above used the MSA as the unit of analysis
• The Gini coefficients to measure wage inequality were calculated by Madden (2000) using the 5 per cent Public Use Microsample (PUMS) data from the 1990 US Census.
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Methodology
• The coefficients for INCOME and TRANSITS were expected to be negative with the coefficients for FEMHEAD and POP1990 expected to be positive.
• A negative sign indicates decreasing levels of wage inequality (Gini ratio closer to zero) while a positive sign indicates increasing levels of income inequality (Gini ratio closer to one).
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Results
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Results
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Results
OLS Model• positive relationship found between urban hierarchies
and income/wage inequality• increases in median income reduce wage inequalities• Increased transit service density (supply) is negatively
correlated with wage inequality levels for the metropolitan areas in the sample.
• the model predicted approximately 19 per cent of the variation in MSA wage inequality.
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Results2SLS Model• only the coefficient for income was statistically significant
at an acceptable level.• The identified variables performed poorly in this model.Step - Wise Model• Step-wise regression was used to identify significant
variables in the equation and therefore reduce the likelihood of over specification.
• compared with the other two equations, the step-wise model had greater explanatory power (adjusted R2 of 0.41)
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Conclusions
• The results of three separate regression models suggest that social and demographic, economic and spatial characteristics are significant determinants of wage inequality.
• This research could be extended by comparing MSA wage inequality and public transport service levels over time.
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