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Journal Article
Equality of education opportunity revisited
Kain, John F.; Singleton, Kraig (1996-05)
New England Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 87-114

Conference Paper
General discussion : overview panel : income inequality : issues and policy options
Rivlin, Alice M. (1998)
Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

Journal Article
The rich and the poor: demographics of the U.S. wealth distribution
Weicher, John C. (1997-07)
In this article, John C. Weicher extends his 1995 and 1996 reports on the distribution of U.S. wealth to present a detailed examination of the demographics of the richest and poorest households. He concludes that concern over the concentration of wealth should be tempered by the apparent fact that "the rich" are a changing group, even over short periods of time. Among his other interesting findings is the observation that most of our nation's rich are entrepreneurs in the American tradition. Less than 8 percent of the net worth of households in the richest 1 percent comes from ...
Review , Issue Jul , Pages 25-37

Working Paper
Family structure and sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes
Rodriguez, Daniel; Zavodny, Madeline (2001)
Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of family structure in such sex differences in postdisplacement outcomes. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics indicate that unmarried women have postdisplacement outcomes similar to men whereas married women?s outcomes differ considerably from those of men. The presence of children in the ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2001-14

Journal Article
A look at long-term developments in the distribution of income
Haslag, Joseph H.; Taylor, Lori L. (1993-01)
Developments in the distribution of income have received much attention over the past decade. Several analysts have argued that income gains have gone almost exclusively to the highest paid 20 percent of the population, leaving no gains to the remaining 80 percent. ; Joseph H. Haslag and Lori L. Taylor examine developments in income inequality over the past forty years and estimate which factors account for these changes over time. While some researchers have found that income distribution became more equal during the 1950s and 1960s and then less equal after the mid-1970s, Haslag and Taylor ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Jan , Pages 19-30

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How wages change: micro evidence from the international wage flexibility project
Goette, Lorenz; Holden, Steinar; Dickens, William T.; Messina, Julian; Turunen, Jarkko; Schweitzer, Mark E.; Ward, Melanie; Groshen, Erica L. (2007)
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We analyze individuals' earnings in thirty-one different data sets from sixteen countries, from which we obtain a total of 360 wage change distributions. We find a remarkable amount of variation in wage changes across workers. Wage changes have a notably non-normal distribution; they are tightly clustered around the median and also have many extreme values. Furthermore, nearly all countries show ...
Staff Reports , Paper 275

Conference Paper
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence
Burtless, Gary (1986)
Conference Series ; [Proceedings] , Volume 30 , Pages 22-59

Working Paper
On the political economy of income redistribution and crime
Merlo, Antonio; Rupert, Peter; Imrohoroglu, Ayse (1996)
A general equilibrium analysis of the effects of income redistribution and crime, showing that while expenditures on police protection reduce crime, it is possible for the crime rate to increase with redistribution.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9609

Journal Article
Inequality and growth: challenges to the old orthodoxy
Quintin, Erwan; Saving, Jason L. (2008)
Discussions of how best to alleviate poverty often center on the relative merits of policies that boost growth and those that promote redistribution. If greater inequality allows economies to expand faster, or if it?s an inevitable consequence of pro-growth measures, the two principles seem incompatible. Under such a scenario, societies seeking rapid growth rates have to forgo redistribution from rich to poor. Conversely, choosing a high degree of redistribution implies the decision to accept lower growth rates.
Economic Letter , Volume 3

Working Paper
Income inequality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Owen, Ann L.; Iyigun, Murat F. (1997)
When per capita income is low, increases in income inequality make macroeconomic cycles less severe. We present a model in which access to credit is based on earnings potential. If low as well as middle income individuals are credit constrained, increases in income inequality lead to smaller fluctuations in aggregate consumption and output. Empirical evidence from cross-country data supports the view that greater income inequality causes lower variation of real consumption and output growth in low income countries. When per capita income is high, however, this effect is reversed.
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 586

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