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A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2011

Researchers considering levels and trends in the resources available to the middle class traditionally measure the pre-tax cash income of either tax units or households. In this paper, we demonstrate that this choice carries significant implications for assessing income trends. Focusing on tax...

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The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2011

This paper focuses on the practical importance of a critical but under-explored interpretation of a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA): whether "affordable" refers to the cost of single coverage alone, or to family or single coverage as applicable to the worker, in determining the...

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Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2010

A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income and its distribution over time. Recent findings in that literature show that median income appears to be stagnating with income growth primarily coming at higher income levels....

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Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2007

Critics of pay or play mandates, borrowing from the large empirical minimum wage literature, provide evidence that they reduce employment. Borrowing from a smaller empirical minimum wage literature, we provide evidence that they also are a blunt instrument for funding health insurance for the...

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Measuring Health Insurance Benefits : The Case of People with Disabilities

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2015

Since 2012 the Congressional Budget Office has included an estimate of the market value of government-provided health insurance coverage in its measures of household income. We follow this practice for both public and private health insurance to capture the impact of greater access to...

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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997

prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s. Despite major differences in …-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are found to persist longer for men. Women in Germany and the United States …

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012

economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …

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