Wage Income, inequality and residential segregation in median Catalonian cities

This article presents the results of a research project focused on median Catalonian cities. This kind of cities, which characterize Catalonian polycentric urban system and European urban system, have received less attention than large global cities. An estimation of the wage income for 41 cities allows analysing the relationship with income inequality and income and immigrant population residential segregation. Along the period (2001-2011), a reduction in wage income, decreasing inequality and high-income segregation and increasing low-income and immigrant population segregation is observed. This general pattern presents variability between the nine largest cities, provincial capitals and county capitals located in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region and the 22 cities that are not county capitals, some in the BMR and others outside this grouping.