Cargando…

The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs

Income polarization is a pressing issue which is increasingly discussed by academics and policymakers. The present research examines income polarization in Canada’s eight largest Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) using data at the census-tract (CT) level between 1971 and 2016. Generally, there are si...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ilic, Lazar, Sawada, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34101744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251430
_version_ 1783705016912052224
author Ilic, Lazar
Sawada, M.
author_facet Ilic, Lazar
Sawada, M.
author_sort Ilic, Lazar
collection PubMed
description Income polarization is a pressing issue which is increasingly discussed by academics and policymakers. The present research examines income polarization in Canada’s eight largest Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) using data at the census-tract (CT) level between 1971 and 2016. Generally, there are significant decreasing trends in the middle-income population with simultaneously increasing trends in low-income groups. The high-income groups have been relatively stable with fewer significant increasing population trends. Using conventional mapping and cartograms, patterns of the spatial evolution of income inequality are illustrated. Every CMA examined contains an increasing trend of spatial fragmentation at the patch level within each CMA’s landscape mosaic. The results of a spatial autocorrelation analysis at the sub-patch, CT level, exhibit significant spatial clustering of high-income CTs as one process that dominates the increasingly fragmented landscape mosaic.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8186789
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-81867892021-06-16 The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs Ilic, Lazar Sawada, M. PLoS One Research Article Income polarization is a pressing issue which is increasingly discussed by academics and policymakers. The present research examines income polarization in Canada’s eight largest Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) using data at the census-tract (CT) level between 1971 and 2016. Generally, there are significant decreasing trends in the middle-income population with simultaneously increasing trends in low-income groups. The high-income groups have been relatively stable with fewer significant increasing population trends. Using conventional mapping and cartograms, patterns of the spatial evolution of income inequality are illustrated. Every CMA examined contains an increasing trend of spatial fragmentation at the patch level within each CMA’s landscape mosaic. The results of a spatial autocorrelation analysis at the sub-patch, CT level, exhibit significant spatial clustering of high-income CTs as one process that dominates the increasingly fragmented landscape mosaic. Public Library of Science 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8186789/ /pubmed/34101744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251430 Text en © 2021 Ilic, Sawada https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Ilic, Lazar
Sawada, M.
The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title_full The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title_fullStr The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title_full_unstemmed The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title_short The temporal evolution of income polarization in Canada’s largest CMAs
title_sort temporal evolution of income polarization in canada’s largest cmas
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34101744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251430
work_keys_str_mv AT iliclazar thetemporalevolutionofincomepolarizationincanadaslargestcmas
AT sawadam thetemporalevolutionofincomepolarizationincanadaslargestcmas
AT iliclazar temporalevolutionofincomepolarizationincanadaslargestcmas
AT sawadam temporalevolutionofincomepolarizationincanadaslargestcmas