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Measuring segregation when hierarchy matters

Hutchens, Robert M. - 2012

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...

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Fractionalization and the size of government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups has the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …

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Concentration among the rich

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2006

definition of a poverty line at the other end of the distribution. It then considers what can be learned about the proportion …

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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...

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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007

, increased that for higher-paid employees, and led to an increase in income inequality. Thus, the more important aspects of new …

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Household search or individual search: Does it matter? Evidence from lifetime inequality estimates

Flabbi, Luca; Mabli, James - 2012

individual search specification implies gender differentials in lifetime utility inequality 74% larger. The results of our policy … experiments emphasize the importance of looking at lifetime utility inequality measures as opposed to simply cross-sectional wage … inequality measures. …

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Consumption inequality and family labor supply

Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2012

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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