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Figure 5. Wage Bill Share Across Affluence, Population Density, and Relative Poverty Source: Authors' compilation based on 1950–2000 census and 2005–2015 American Community Survey data (). Note: Lines computed from locally weighted regressions of wage bill against variables indicated along the x-axis, separately by year. Bandwidth = 0.3.
Figure 5.

Wage Bill Share Across Affluence, Population Density, and Relative Poverty

Source: Authors' compilation based on 1950–2000 census and 2005–2015 American Community Survey data (Ruggles et al. 2019).

Note: Lines computed from locally weighted regressions of wage bill against variables indicated along the x-axis, separately by year. Bandwidth = 0.3.

Direct correspondence to: Tom VanHeuvelen at tvanheuvelen@gmail.com, Department of Sociology, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55455; and Katherine Copas at kcopas2@illinois.edu, 3059 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801.

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