In doing so, we use two alternative measures of inequality: the Top 1% share of income and the Gini coefficient. This provides new insight on the literature of income inequality across the US states. Several empirical findings emerge. First, a heterogeneous evolution of inequality exists across ...
DURING the last several decades, income inequality in the United States has increased significantly, and the trend shows no sign of reversing. The last time inequality was as high as it is now was just before the Great Depression. Such a high level of in...
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Associations Between Income Inequality and Mortality Among US States: The Importance of Time Period and Source of Income Data S, Kaplan GA, Davey SG: Associations between income inequality and mortality among US states: the importance of time period and source of income data. ......
The study, published today in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used anonymized data from mobile device location pings between January and April 2020 to find thatsocial distancingin the United States varies strongly by income. ...
United States In the United States, trends around income distribution haven’t painted a rosy picture for quite some time. In our earlier analysis,The great retail bifurcation, we found that in the decade following the great recession, income among ...
This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during 1980鈥 90. The results suggest that ine... R Aaberge,Anders Bjrklund,Markus Jntti,... - 《Review of Income & Wealth》 被引量: 382发表: 2002年 The Scandinavian Fantasy: The ...
This paper examines the impact of Federal Reserve policy on income inequality across US states. We use the local projections method of Jord to estimate impulse response functions for each state. We find that a restrictive monetary policy increases income inequality in almost all states, but with ...
{#article-title-2} EDITOR,—In their study on inequality in income and mortality in the United States, George A Kaplan and colleagues discuss the fact that many of the states in which the proportion of total household income received by the less well off 50% was low were those with a ...
income inequalityinstrument variablepublic infrastructureUS state panel dataOur analysis of US state﹍evel data on an annual frequency, from 1976 to 2008, sheds new light on a plausible causal link between infrastructure investments, namely public spending on highways, and income inequality. This ...