The article argues that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the US can be explained by bad quality jobs and polarization of the jobs market (JMP). JMP accounts for the distribution of jobs across households, where high JMP implies there are...

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)...