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a
400
Health care
350
Government
300
250
R
e
ta
il
Accommodaon &
food
Educaon
200
150
Wholesale
100
Other support
services
Construcon
Other services
50
Transportaon
0
b
400
350
Manufacturing
300
250
200
Professional services
150
Finance & insurance
100
Informaon
Retail
Other support
services
50
0
Fig. 18.7
(a) Non-tradable industrial employment (major sectors) in Boston Metro (b) Tradable
industrial employment (major sectors) in Boston Metro
economy of the Boston Region over the last two decades indicate increasing income
inequalities.
Similar empirical analyses conducted for New York, Washington, DC and other
Megalopolis Knowledge economies (not reported here) yield comparable results of
recently widening income disparities.
Figure
18.9
shows the progress of the Gini index from 1979 to 2011 in the US
and in selected metropolitan areas of the Megalopolis over three decades. In 1979,
income inequalities are more pronounced in the nation than in the metro areas of the
Megalopolis. By 1989, when Globalization was underway, the Gini indices (income
inequalities) are climbing in the nation and in the metropolitan areas of the
Megalopolis. As global organization of business and a finer differentiation of
