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The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in Us Cities
Fogli, Alessandra - 2019
increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we first document a positive correlation between … inequality and segregation at the MSA level between 1980 and 2010. We then develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations … model, segregation and inequality amplify each other because of a local spillover that affects the returns to education. We …
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Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income in American Neighborhoods
Watson, Tara - 2021
American metropolitan areas have experienced rising residential segregation by income since 1970. One potential … presents a measure of residential segregation by income, the Centile Gap Index (CGI) which is based on income percentiles …. Using the CGI, I find that a one standard deviation increase in income inequality raises residential segregation by income …
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Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill
Kremer, Michael; Maskin, Eric - 2021
greater segregation of high- and low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are … imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for these increases in segregation and inequality either through technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246994
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have experienced relatively larger increases in cost of living, because they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758329
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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Couture, Victor - 2019
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864806
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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel - 2021
This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246367
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Empathy and Emulation : Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher - 2014
Departures from self-centred, consumption-oriented decision making are increasingly common in economic theory and are well motivated by a wide range of behavioural data from experiments, surveys, and econometric inference. A number of studies have shown large negative externalities in individual...
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The Distributional Effects of Medicare
Lee, Julie; McClellan, Mark B.; Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2021
The Medicare program is now an important source of transfers to elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and will continue to grow rapidly in the future. Because the Medicare program is so large in magnitude, it can have significant redistributional effects. In this paper, we measure the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313769
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Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies : Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies?
Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
inequality aversion and financing the subsidy is not too distortive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232894
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Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification
Bayer, Patrick J. - 2011
counterfactual reductions in commuting costs lead to marked increases in racial and education segregation and, to a lesser degree …, increases in income segregation, given that households now find it easier to locate in neighborhoods with like households. While … turning off preferences for housing characteristics increases racial segregation, especially for blacks, doing so reduces …
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