In the 1990s, social expectations of single mothers shifted towards the notion that most should, could, and would work, if given the proper incentives. This shift in expectations culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, commonly...

Inconsistent censoring in the public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) limits its usefulness in measuring labor earnings trends. Using Pareto estimation methods with less-censored internal CPS data, we create an enhanced cell-mean series to capture top earnings in the public-use CPS. We...

We propose a class of generalised percentile ratios as an alternative to the P90 / P10 ratio for measuring labour earnings inequality. We show that they are more robust to sampling the variation and rounding error prevalent in interview-based surveys, as demonstrated through a Monte Carlo...

We propose a class of generalised percentile ratios as an alternative to the P<SUB align="right">90</SUB> / P<SUB align="right">10</SUB> ratio for measuring labour earnings inequality. We show that they are more robust to sampling the variation and rounding error prevalent in interview-based surveys, as demonstrated through a Monte Carlo...</sub></sub>