rich and the poor drives redistributive preferences. It is revealed that these beliefs, particularly about the 'deserving …' poor, are significant determinants of strong redistributive preferences. Despite powerful prevailing prejudices about the …. Second, we are interested in the distribution of the different moralistic beliefs about the rich and the poor over socio …

methods. This is illustrated through an analysis of change in the working poor in the North Central region of the U.S. during …

-level increases and decreases in the proportion of working poor in four states. An econometric model by Anderson, Goe, and Weng (2007 …

This paper uses PSID data for 1989, 1994, and 1999 to examine why some U.S. households are asset poor, i.e., why …-effects logistic model of the probability that an individual is asset poor at a given point in time as a function of household (e … associated with a higher risk of being asset poor, all else being equal. …

poor. The poverty measures debate across the developing world has generated more heat than light as there is no consensus … on constructing the poverty line. Characterization of poverty and heterogeneity of the poor needs more profound …

We examine the effect of measurement error on estimates of the size of the working poor population. Using a unique data … coincidence, these counterbalancing sources of measurement error cancel each other out exactly. Estimates of the working poor …

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

This research investigates the problems of the working poor who are limited by health, drug abuse, alcoholism, or other … serious personal handicaps, like blindness. From 1985 to 1995, one third of working poor young baby boomers had at least one … others to become working poor, spend longer in both working and non-working poverty and have lower income after leaving …

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 … income of the rich are related to changes in the relative income of the poor, but that the reverse situation does not hold …

against low-skilled workers, contributing to the plight of the working poor. This result, however, is sensitive to how we …