INTERRELATIONAL INCOME-DISTRIBUTION MULTIPLIERS FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA ECONOMY*

ABSTRACT. This paper presents a set of Miyazawa interrelational multipliers, which measure how direct changes in the income of each income bracket result in indirect and induced income changes in all other brackets. The multipliers have been calculated for a 9-by-9 pairing of income brackets for West Virginia in 1982. Their estimation is based on a combination of survey and nonsurvey data in three forms: a 1982 West Virginia input-output table, a multisector income-distribution matrix, and an income disaggregated consumption matrix. The paper illustrates the usefulness of the multipliers by showing how they provide insight into the viability of trickle-down theory and the incidence of regional development policy.     

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The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume I, The Land of Iran. Edited by W. B. Fisher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. xix + 784 pp., maps, bibliogr., index. $12.50.

The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume V, The Saljug and Mongol Periods. Edited by J. A. Boyle, Cambirdge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. xiii + 763 pp., maps, tables, bibliog., index. $12.50.

Planning and Development in Iran. By George B. Baldwin. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. xv + 212. $6.95.