This paper examines the entry-level labor market for academic economists and investigates the determinants of market salaries. The focus is on the effects of tenure and nontenure track jobs and departmental ranking that are based upon faculty research productivity. The results reveal that the...

This paper shows that using a one-parameter functional form for the Lorenz curve is equivalent to ranking income distributions based on their Gini indices. Irrespective of the underlying data, the fitted Lorenz curves can never intersect. Circu mstances in which one-parameter Lorenz curves can...