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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 2017

Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...

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Black-White Differences in Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in the U.S

Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011

Traditional measures of inter-generational mobility such as the inter-generational elasticity are not useful for inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition probabilities and measures of “directional rank...

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Changes in Neighborhood Inequality, 2000-2010

Weinberg, Daniel H. - 2016

2010: individuals in poverty, those with a bachelor's degree, older individuals, householders living alone, and median rent … poverty in 2000. Furthermore, as the baseline level of demographic and economic diversity increases, the better the baseline …

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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.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 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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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies : Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2013

We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...

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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bjelland, Melissa; Fallick, Bruce; Haltiwanger, John; … - 2013

We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...

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How Low Income Neighborhoods Change : Entry, Exit and Enhancement

Ellen, Ingrid Gould - 2010

This paper examines whether the economic gains experienced by low-income neighborhoods in the 1990s followed patterns of classic gentrification (as frequently assumed) – that is, through the in migration of higher income white, households, and out migration (or displacement) of the original...

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Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?

Fisher, Jonathan - 2013

Previous research has repeatedly found a puzzling one-time drop in the mean and median of consumption at retirement, contrary to the predictions of the life-cycle hypothesis. However, very little is known as to whether these effects vary across the consumption distribution. This study expands...

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Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?

Fisher, Jonathan D.; Marchand, Joseph - 2011

Previous research has repeatedly found a puzzling one-time drop in consumption at retirement at the mean or median. This study expands upon the previous work by examining these same retirement changes across the entire consumption distribution through the application of quantile regression...

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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income : Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2015

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly …

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