ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analysis of the distribution of income in the 25 counties along the US side of the US-Mexico border. It explores the data used throughout the study and examines the selection of measures of income distribution. The chapter describes a brief examination of levels of income in the border region and discusses the distribution of family income in the 25 border counties and the four border states. The measures of income distribution calculated using the data for 1979 exhibit a similar though by no means identical pattern. Income distribution, the number of variables used to explain a particular distribution or changes in the distribution of income is large and growing. In a border region the problem of explaining the distribution of income becomes even more complex. There are a number of consequences of the pattern of income distribution found along the border in both the public and private sectors of the border economy.
