The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the United States can be substantially explained by polarized job markets characterized by job quality and job distribution. In recent decades, there has been an increased number of...

This paper examines the relationship between ethnic institutions and public and welfare goods provisions. Earlier related but distinct literature presented a negative association between ethnic fractionalization and public goods provision. Although such negative associations do not hold while...

Understanding the spatial or geographical dependence of income inequality and regional inequality is crucial in the study of inequality. This paper employs a multi-scale, multi-mechanism framework to map and analyze historical patterns of regional and income inequality in the United States (US)...