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Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Han, Jeehoon - 2020
impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …
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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013
these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459487
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The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2000
This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471249
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Missing Top Income Recipients
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Low response rates among rich households are thought to be a serious problem in many applications using household surveys. The paper discusses the various ways the problem can be dealt with, and makes some recommendations for practice, including in developing countries. Under certain conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585374
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Individual Earnings and Family Income : Dynamics and Distribution
Altonji, Joseph G.; Hynsjö, Disa M.; Vidangos, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural models of saving. We present a version of the linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210123
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Wives' Labor Force Participation, Wage Differentials and Family Income Inequality : The Israeli Experience
GRonau, Reuben - 1981
Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. The paper investigates the effect of wives' earnings on family income distribution. This effect depends on the in-equality of women's earnings as compared with other sources of income, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478453
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Inequality Within and Between Families
Sheshinski, Eytan - 1979
Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children's ability on the willingness of parents to transfer resources to them. Within-family differences also reflect the attitudes of parents toward disparity among children. In this paper we...
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Who is the Family's Main Breadwinner? The Wife's Contribution to Full Income
Gronau, Reuben - 1976
In contrast to past studies which have focused on the labor inputs going into home production (Sirageldin, 1969; Walker and Gauger, 1973), the emphasis in this paper is on the measurement of productivity and total home output. The questions I try to answer are: What are the factors determining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478981
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Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups : What Are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs?
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2018
This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both the source-side impacts (reflecting how policies affect nominal wage, capital, and transfer incomes) and the use-side impacts (reflecting how policies alter prices of goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480833
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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Dube, Arindrajit - 2018
run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480891