We examine the effect of measurement error on estimates of the size of the working poor population. Using a unique data … set, which includes both self-reported and employer-reported earnings, we find that inaccurately reported earnings are … common. Among those with very low self-reported earnings are many individuals with underreported earnings. However, this is …

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

authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the …

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 …

net change in the percentage of the poor living in female-headed households; thus, the trend was mitigated over those …

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 …