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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, we compare the labor earnings mobility of prime age men and women in the United States and Germany...

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Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2010

A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income and its distribution over time. Recent findings in that literature show that median income appears to be stagnating with income growth primarily coming at higher income levels....

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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA : Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009

Although the vast majority of US research on trends in the inequality of family income is based on public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, a new wave of research based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster...

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Recent Trends in U.S. Top Income Shares in Tax Record Data Using More Comprehensive Measures of Income Including Accrued Capital Gains

Larrimore, Jeff - 2016

Access to IRS personal income tax records improves researchers' ability to track U.S. income and inequality, especially at the very top of the distribution (Piketty and Saez 2003). However, rather than following standard Haig-Simons income definitions, tax form income measures were designed to...

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A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2011

Researchers considering levels and trends in the resources available to the middle class traditionally measure the pre-tax cash income of either tax units or households. In this paper, we demonstrate that this choice carries significant implications for assessing income trends. Focusing on tax...

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation--German reunification-- abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with...

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Evaluating the Success of President Johnson’s War on Poverty : Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

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Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2007

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

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Minimum Wages and Poverty : New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates

Burkhauser, Richard V.; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …

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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)

Elwell, James - 2019

Using Census Bureau estimates of the market value of in-kind transfers and Current Population Survey (ASEC-CPS) data over the period 1979 to 2007, Burkhauser et al. (2012b) construct measures of income and its distribution. We extend their work forward to 2016 and back to 1967 using ASEC-CPS...

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