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Zagorsky, Jay L. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 25 (1999) 2, pp. 169-189

others to become working poor, spend longer in both working and non-working poverty and have lower income after leaving … poverty. Hence, policies designed to reduce working poverty must focus on helping many individuals with significant health …

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Rich versus Poor? An Econometric Analysis of Relative Income Extremes

Jefferson, Philip N.; Pryor, Frederic L. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 27 (2001) 1, pp. 1-17

We explore the hypothesis that income of the rich increases at the expense of income of the poor. In a simple linear regression model, the relative (to the median) incomes of the poor and the rich are significantly and inversely related. Using standard time-series methods, we demonstrate that...

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Economic Institutions and Human Well-Being: A Cross-National Analysis

Norton, Seth W. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 29 (2003) 1, pp. 23-40

rights and economic freedom substantially reduce poverty and enhance economic development. …

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Demand Shifts and Low-Wage Workers

Bernstein, Jared - In: Eastern Economic Journal 25 (1999) 2, pp. 191-208

Conventional economic wisdom holds that labor demand in the U.S. labor market has shifted over the past few decades against low-skilled workers, contributing to the plight of the working poor. This result, however, is sensitive to how we define unskilled workers. If they are defined in terms of...

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The Working Poor--A Statistical Artifact?

Weinberger, Catherine J.; Kim, Marlene - In: Eastern Economic Journal 25 (1999) 2, pp. 155-167

population based on self-reported earnings are extremely accurate. This result is robust to changes in the designated poverty …

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A Contrast of Black and White Feminization of Poverty

Northrop, Emily M. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 20 (1994) 4, pp. 465-470

The feminization of poverty was most pronounced from 1959 through 1978, and was more extreme among blacks than among … whites. It resulted almost equally from a deterioration of female-headed household poverty status relative to that of the …

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Introduction to Symposium on the Working Poor

Kim, Marlene - In: Eastern Economic Journal 25 (1999) 2, pp. 151-153

This is a short introduction to the four paper symposium on the working poor in this issue.

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Does Growing Inequality Harm the Middle Class?

Frank, Robert - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 3, pp. 253-264

Respected economists invoke the Pareto criterion to argue that inequality doesn't really matter so long as no one ends up with less in absolute terms. Using income levels to measure the well-being of individual families, these economists argue that since the rich now have much more money than...

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Income and Poverty across SMSAs: A Two-Stage Analysis

Leekley, Robert M.; Seeborg, Michael C. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 19 (1993) 1, pp. 43-58

Two popular explanations of urban poverty are the "welfare-disincentive" and "urban-deindustrialization" theories …. Using cross-sectional Census data, we develop a two-stage model to predict an SMSAs median family income and poverty rate …. The model allows the city's welfare level and industrial structure to affect its median family income and poverty rate …

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Alcohol Tax Equalization and Social Costs

Saffer, Henry; Chaloupka, Frank - In: Eastern Economic Journal 20 (1994) 1, pp. 33-43

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