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This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …
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earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress … racial and ethnic differences in male earnings from 1950 through 2010 using data from the decennial census and American … Community Surveys. Emphasis is given to annual rather than weekly or hourly earnings. Treatment of imputed earnings greatly …
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This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...
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-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
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Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
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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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born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …
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