Author: Robert H. HavemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Anatomy of Changing Male Earnings Inequality
Author: Robert H. HavemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Earnings Inequality
Author: Examining the U.S. White Male, Full-time Worker Earnings Distribution and the Effect of Schooling on Earnings
Author: Donna K. GintherThe Collapse of Low-skill Male Earnings in the 1980s
Author: David R. HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unskilled labor
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Discussion Papers
Author: IRP Reprint Series
Author: Discussion Papers
Author: Donna K. GintherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Changing Inequality
Author: Rebecca M. BlankPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950194
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, sets this situation within its historical context, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Among other factors, Blank looks closely at changes within families, including women’s increasing participation in the work force. The book includes some surprising findings—for example, that per-person income has risen sharply among almost all social groups, even as income has become more unequally distributed. Looking toward the future, Blank suggests that while rising inequality will likely be with us for many decades to come, it is not an inevitable outcome. Her book considers what can be done to address this trend, and also explores the question: why should we be concerned about this phenomenon?
New England Economic Review
Author: Changing Fortunes
Author: Stephen P. JenkinsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191619949
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given year and compares those numbers with the corresponding statistics from the previous year. Missing from snapshot pictures like these is information about whether the people who were poor one year are the same people who are poor the following year; and the circumstances of those with middle-income or top-income origins are not tracked over time. This book fills in the missing information. The author likens Britain's income distribution to a multi-story apartment building with the numbers of residents on the different floors corresponding to the concentration of people at different income levels in any particular year. The poorest are in the basement, the richest are in the penthouse, and the majority somewhere in between. This book assesses how much movement there is between floors, the frequency of moves, whether the distance travelled has been changing over the last two decades, and whether basement dwellers ever reach the penthouse. Using the British Household Panel Survey, which has followed and interviewed the same people annually since 1991, it documents the patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain, shows how they have changed over the last two decades, and explores the reasons why. It draws attention to the relationships between changes in income and changes in other aspects of people's lives - not only in their jobs, earnings, benefits, and credits, but also in the households within which they live (people marry and divorce; children are born). Trends over time are also related to changes in Britain's labour market and the reforms to the tax-benefit system introduced by the Labour government in the late-1990s.