An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Changing Inequality Of Individual, Household And Regional Inequality In Australian Cities

Abstract

The changes in neighbourhood income inequality noted in Gregory and Hunter (1995) indicate that significant changes in the nature of Australian cities have occurred since the mid-1970s. This paper seeks to establish that the regional dimension of income inequality is becoming a more important component of overall inequality. Furthermore, low status and high status areas are becoming increasingly homogenous with more low income households living together in low status neighbourhoods and higher income households living elsewhere. The inadequacies of the regional income data currently available means that it is difficult to explore changes in social welfare in any detail.

Key words::

• spatial income
• inequality
• locational disadvantage
• social stratification