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P Gottschalk… - Journal of Economic literature, 1997 - JSTOR
JNTEREST IN THE distribution of earnings and the distribution of household income was
largely a parochial backwater of economic research in the United States until the early
1980s. This lack of interest reflected the view that both the functional and personal ...
By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced
approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968
membership. We study the effect of this attrition on the unconditional distributions of ...
P Gottschalk, R Moffitt, LF Katz… - Brookings Papers on …, 1994 - JSTOR
THE WIDENING EARNINGS distribution in the US labor market over the 1970s and 1980s
has been one of the most remarkable shifts in the structure of labor compensation in recent
history-the last major shift in this distribution having occurred during the 1940s. I In the ...
P Gottschalk - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997 - JSTOR
D uring the 1950s and 1960s, mean wages in the United States grew rapidly, and the
dispersion around this growing mean changed very little. Starting in the 1970s and
continuing into the 1980s and 1990s, these patterns were reversed: mean wages grew ...
P Gottschalk… - Handbook of income distribution, 2000 - Elsevier
Abstract This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual
disposable income inequality in over 20 wealthy nations. We begin by reviewing a number
of conceptual and measurement issues which must be addressed by any cross-national ...
S Danziger… - 1993 - books.google.com
Conventional wisdom about income inequality in America is radically different in the early
1990s than it was ten to fifteen years ago. At that time, Alan Blinder (1980) began a review
article on the distribution of economic well-being by noting that" the more things change, ...
RA Moffitt… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We decompose the rise in cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in the United
States from 1969 to 1996 into permanent and transitory components. We find that the
variance of permanent earnings began rising in the the late 1970s and has continued to ...
P Gottschalk… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998 - JSTOR
This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to explore the role of differences in
supply shifts in explaining cross-national differences in the rise in earnings inequality.
Changes in returns to age and education are estimated for eight countries using a ...
[CITATION] The dynamics and intergenerational transmission of poverty and welfare participation
P Gottschalk, S McLanahan… - Confronting poverty: Prescriptions for …, 1994
[CITATION] Working wives and family income inequality among married couples
M Cancian, S Danziger… - Uneven tides: …, 1993 - New York: Russell Sage Foundation
[CITATION] Trends in the Autocovariance Structure of Earnings in the US, 1969-1987
R Moffitt,
P Gottschalk… - 1995 - Johns Hopkins University, …
P Gottschalk… - Review of Economic Studies, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of “reversal” and
“origin independence” as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show that evaluation
depends on aversion to multi-period inequality, aversion to inter-temporal fluctuations, ...
This article provides evidence on changes in short-term job instability and insecurity using
the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Monthly measures from this data set are
contrasted with annual measures from the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
P Gottschalk… - Review of Income and Wealth, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We
focus on four distinct distributions: the distribution of hourly wage rates, the distribution of
annual earnings of individuals, the distribution of annual earnings of families, and the ...
MD Dooley… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1984 - JSTOR
We analyze the variance of log earnings within labor force cohorts of US males with
particular attention to the influence of labor force growth rates. Estimates with data from the
1968-79 current population surveys reveal increases in earnings inequality within labor ...
In the past ten years, discussions of the welfare system and welfare reform have increasingly
been concerned with the extent of" welfare dependence." However, while the idea that some
individuals may be" dependent" upon the welfare system for support is intuitively clear, the ...
LJ Bassi, O Ashenfelter, JR Antos,
P Gottschalk… - 1985 - asdspace300l.princeton.edu
Abstract This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of employment and training
programs and concludes that they have been neither an overwhelming success nor a
complete failure in terms of their ability to increase the long-term employment and ...
This paper asks whether the observed correlation in welfare participation across
generations reflects causal links or unobservables that are correlated across generations. If
the correlation is spurious then reducing one generations' welfare participations. will have ...
P Gottschalk - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This article explores two methodological issues in measuring intergenerational
correlations in welfare participation. First, a method is proposed that controls for differences
in eligibility as well as participation. Second, the use of event history analysis allows all ...
William Julius Wilson's influential book The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) has sparked a
vigorous debate about the existence and causes of an urban underclass. While there is still
no clear agreement about definitions, the growing literature on the underclass focuses ...
It is now widely recognized that earnings inequality grew rapidly in the United States during
the 1970's and 1980's. 1 The average earnings of educated workers pulled further away
from those of less-educated workers, and young workers lost relatively to primeaged ...
While the reduction of poverty is a noncontroversial policy goal, there is little agreement as
to the relative impacts of changes in market and transfer income on poverty. The War on
Poverty was predicated on the assumption that increased market incomes resulting from ...
P Gottschalk - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - MIT Press
This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and
applies this method to address an old question: How much downward wage flexibility is
there in the United States? We apply standard methods developed by Bai and Perron to ...
P Gottschalk… - 2005 - books.google.com
Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious
communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some
of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the ...
[CITATION] Family structure, family size, and family income: accounting for changes in the economic well-being of children, 1968-1986
P Gottschalk, S Danziger… - 1990 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, …
S Danziger… - The American Economic Review, 1987 - JSTOR
William J. Wilson (1978, 1985, 1986) has hypothesized that the combination of increased
spatial concentration and increased inequality of income among blacks has caused adverse
behavioral consequences for poor blacks and contributed to the development of an" ...
P Gottschalk… - 2008 - books.google.com
In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men
with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. In the post-9/11 world, a clash of
civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the War on Terror seems a struggle ...
E Smolensky, S Danziger… - 1987 - getcited.org
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P Gottschalk… - REPORT-NATIONAL POLICY …, 1999 - fmwww.bc.edu
High levels of poverty and inequality and their failure to decline to the levels achieved in the
1970's, despite the economic recoveries of the 1980's and 1990's, remain an unresolved
problem of the American economy. Although the mean family income level in the US is ...
P Gottschalk - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982 - JSTOR
A RE people with low earnings in one year lAlexperiencing a transitory drop in earnings, or
do they have permanently low earnings? The answer to this question has important
implications.'If a person's low earnings reflect an unforeseen but transitory experience, ...
S Danziger… - The American Economic Review, 1986 - JSTOR
Discussions about the antipoverty effects of economic growth in the United States have
largely been predicated on John Kennedy's metaphor that a rising tide lifts all boats. But the
magnitude of these effects has been a subject of debate since the inception of the War on ...
TM Smeeding… - 1995 - lisproject.org
... Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), asbl Working Paper No. 137 The International Evidence on
Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand? Timothy Smeeding and Peter
Gottschalk March 1996 (revised) (scanned copy) Page 2. Luxembourg Income Study ...
We develop a search model that focuses on the expected result of search. The model
focuses on four conceptually different steps which are taken in changing jobs. First, the
person is either voluntarily or involuntarily terminated. Second, the person who decides to ...
[CITATION] Macroeconomic conditions, income transfers and the trend in poverty
[CITATION] The impact of attrition in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on intergenerational analysis
J Fitzgerald,
P Gottschalk… - Journal of …, 1998 - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN …
R Moffit, J Fitzgerald… - Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 1999 - JSTOR
The traditional formulation of the attrition problem in econometrics treats it as a special case
of the partial-population section bias model in which selection (attrition) is based on model
unobservables. This paper considers instead the treatment of attrition as a special case of ...
P Gottschalk… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The inequality of earnings and of family incomes in the United States has
increased since the late 1970s. The large rise in earnings inequality between the 1970s and
the 1990s could reflect either a rise in disparity of permanent incomes, a rise in earnings ...
S Danziger… - Challenge, 1985 - JSTOR
To read the popular press, one would think that Charles Murray had hit a home run. His
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1984) has
drawn rave reviews in a variety of newspapers and journals, and its findings are cited in ...
This 1997 book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed
economies-representing a wide range of social and economic strategies-over the past two
decades. Experts from each of the countries have carefully documented the pattern of ...
Abstract This article reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of earnings and
income inequality in OECD countries. It begins with a series of stylized facts which are then
examined and supported by recent studies in the field. Economic, demographic, ...
RA Moffitt… - 2011 - nber.org
We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the US using the
Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error
components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the ...
This article explores the claim that college-educated workers are increasingly likely to be in
“noncollege” occupations. We provide a conceptual framework that gives analytical content
to the previously vague distinction between “college” and noncollege jobs. We show that, ...
P Gottschalk… - Poverty, inequality, and the future of …, 1995 - books.google.com
Peter Gottschalk and Mary Joyce i—rt—\ 1 he united states has experienced substantial
increases in inequality of wage rates and family income during the 1970s and 1980s. Highly
educated workers, who were already receiving above-average wages in the 1970s, ...
RB Freeman… - 1998 - books.google.com
The American economy is in danger of leaving its low-skill workers behind. In the last three
decades, the wages and employment levels of the least educated and experienced workers
have fallen disastrously. Where willing workers with little education once found ready ...
H Connolly… - Boston, Mass.: Boston College, 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper explores whether within job and between job wage growth is lower for
less-educated workers. While a simple model of heterogeneous learning ability predicts that
individuals with low learning ability will have flatter wage profiles, this prediction has been ...
Page 1. A COMPARISON OF MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY AND EARNINGS BY
OCCUPATION PETER T. GOTTSCHALK In its unsophisticated form the marginal
productivity theory of distribution pos- tulates that, in order to maximize ...
P Gottschalk… - The Dynamics of Child Poverty in …, 2001 - books.google.com
The availability of longitudinal data has had a profound influence on the way analysts view
poverty in the United States. Prior to the availability of data from the Panel Study of Income
Dynamics, which started in 1968, researchers and the press assumed that poverty was a ...
S Danziger… - 1985 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This paper presents facts to use in evaluating changes in incomes of families with
children, focusing on the period from 1967-1984 and making comparisons with the
preceeding two decades. Changes in average family income are examined, as well as ...
J Enberg,
P Gottschalk… - Journal of Econometrics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper models the transitions between states defined in terms of work and
welfare status as a discrete-time competing-risk model with unobserved heterogeneity. A
random-effects logit model is estimated with a panel drawn from Wisconsin administrative ...
S Danziger… - Monthly Lab. Rev., 1986 - HeinOnline
In 1984, the poverty rate for all households in the United States was slightly less than the
rate for 1967 and at about the same as that in 1971.'About one-fourth of all heads of
household whom we classified as" expected to work" had low weekly earnings. However, ...
The United States has experienced substantial increases in inequality of wage rates and
family income during the 1970's and 1980's. Highly educated workers, who were already
receiving above average wages in the 1970's, received substantial raises during the ...
H Connolly… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper revisits the old question of whether wage growth differs by education
level. Do more educated workers invest more than less educated workers in firm specific,
sector specific or general human capital? Do they gain more from improved job match? ...
[CITATION] Use of IT for knowledge management in law firms
P Gottschalk - The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), 1999
P Gottschalk - Generating jobs: How to increase demand for …, 1998 - books.google.com
With government employing roughly 15 percent of the workforce, this sector could have a
substantial impact on the labor markets for less skilled workers. Government is simply too
big an actor in the labor markets to be ignored. More modest in size are the highly ...
P Gottschalk… - The New Economics of Rising Inequality, 2002 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract Previous studies of trends in inequality have ignored changes in the distribution of
home production. This paper asks whether including the value of home production affects
the trend in inequality of families. During the 1980s household money income grew at a ...
S Danziger… - American Behavioral Scientist, 1983 - abs.sagepub.com
The Bureau of the Census (1982a) has released a report showing that if in-kind income from
government programs—food stamps, subsidized school lunches, public housing, Medicare
and Medicaid—is valued and added to money incomes, then poverty in 1979 was ...
R Moffitt… - Institute for Research on Poverty …, 1993 - ideas.repec.org
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SH Danziger… - The American People: Census, 2000 - books.google.com
Following World War II, the American economy experienced a quarter-century of sustained
economic growth, rising real wages, and low unemployment rates. The benefits of this
prosperity were widely shared among most of the poor, the middle class, and the wealthy. ...
TM Smeeding,
P Gottschalk - International Journal of Health Services, 1999 - Baywood
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the topic of income distribution in a
cross-national context. A secular growth of income inequality has taken place over the past
two decades affecting almost every rich nation, matched by the growth in comparable ...
A Barattieri,
S Basu… - 2010 - nber.org
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural
macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence
supporting the assumption of sluggish nominal wage adjustment. We present evidence on ...
P Gottschalk - Department of Economic, Boston College, manuscript, 2001 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract This paper presents evidence on the extent of wage mobility both while working for
the same firm and when moving to a new firm. We find that mean wage growth between jobs
is large in comparison to wage growth while working for the same employer, especially for ...
[CITATION] Earnings and Wage Distributions in the NLS, CPS, and PSID
P Gottschalk… - Part I of Final Report to the US Department of Labor. …, 1992
RA Moffitt… - Boston College Working Papers in …, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
We use the Michigan Panel Data Study on Income Dynamics to decompose the well-known
rise in cross-sectional variance of individual male earnings in the US into permanent and
transitory components. We find that about half of the increase has arisen from an increase ...
S Danziger… - Challenge, 1986 - JSTOR
The Bureau of the Census data offer persuasive evidence that the face of America has
changed dramatically in less than a generation. In the past decade, families with children
have seen their real incomes stagnate, after steady growth in the 1950s and'60s. Indeed, ...
P Gottschalk - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A common argument in support of work-based welfare reform is that exposure to
work will lead welfare recipients to revise their beliefs about how they will be treated in the
labor market. This paper explores the analytical and empirical basis for this argument. The ...
[CITATION] Diverging fortunes: Trends in poverty and inequality
S Danziger,
P Gottschalk, Russell Sage Foundation… - 2004 - Russell Sage Foundation
M Cancian, S Danziger,
P Gottschalk… - 1991 - levyinstitute.org
Abstract In the past twenty years, the labor force participation and earnings of women,
especially married women, have risen dramatically. Over the same period, men's earnings
have increased only modestly, and the distribution of family income has grown less equal. ...
P Gottschalk… - Boston College Working Papers in …, 1993 - econpapers.repec.org
... Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising In Other Industrialized Countries? Peter Gottschalk () and Mary
Joyce Additional contact information Mary Joyce: Bureau of Labor Statistics. No 223, Boston
College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics. ...
M Dooley… - Demography, 1985 - Springer
Abstract Data from the 1967 through 1978 Current Population Surveys of the US Bureau of
the Census are used to analyze the proportion of men with annual and weekly earnings
below a fixed low earnings threshold. Logit analysis is used to assess the impact of the ...
[CITATION] The impact of budget cuts and economic conditions on poverty
S Danziger… - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1985 - JSTOR
S Danziger… - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1988 - JSTOR
Post-Keynesians have focused primarily on changes in the functional distribution of income.
In this paper, we analyze the major changes which have occurred within the personal
distribution of income. Since much of this change has occurred within labor income, we ...
An error components model is used to estimate the impact of plant closings on the mean and
the variance of log earnings with data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results
of the estimation are used to compute the impact of displacement on the probability that ...
[CITATION] Trends in the Covariance Structure of Earnings in the US: 1969-1987
P Gottschalk… - Unpublished Manuscript, 1995
P Taubman… - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1971 - JSTOR
This article derives a quarterly series from 1952-1968 on the average workweek of capital in
use in manufacturing. The basic information used is data on the number of production
workers engaged on first, second, and third shifts and the average workweek on the first ...
This article develops a framework for analyzing the impact of taxes and transfers on the
length of time a person waits to accept a job while receiving transfer payments. It considers
the impact of changes in the parameters of a generic tax-transfer system characterized by ...
P Gottschalk… - Boston College Working Papers in …, 2003 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract This paper tracks distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth
century. We focus on three conceptually distinct distributions: the distribution of wages, the
distribution of annual earnings and the distribution of total family income adjusted for ...
M Dooley… - Monthly Labor Review, 1982 - blsweb1.psb.bls.gov
In a recent article in the Monthly Labor Review, Peter Henle and Paul Ryscavage showed
that inequality of earnings among men grew between 1959 and 1977, although the rate of
increase was lower after 1973.'Robert Plotnick likewise found an increase in the overall ...
H Connolly… - Labour, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract. Wage cuts are often presumed to reflect an adverse change in economic
constraints. However, several theoretical models have shown they can be a form of
investment in future wage growth. This paper provides empirical evidence of the latter by ...
P Gottschalk… - On the job: Is long-term employment a thing …, 2000 - fmwww.bc.edu
This paper has two objectives. The first is to measure changes in job instability over the
1980's and 1990's. We provide evidence on changes in short term job turnover using a
previously underutilized data source, the Survey of Income and Program Participation ( ...
R Connelly… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
This article develops analytic links between cohort composition and human capital
accumulation across generations. By focusing on cohort composition rather than cohort size,
it offers new links between demographic change and economic outcomes. The model ...
[CITATION] Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America
P Gottschalk… - New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993
[CITATION] Working wives and the distribution of family income
M Cancian, S Danziger… - Rising Tides: Rising Inequality in America, …, 1993
[CITATION] Health care financing in the US, UK and Netherlands: Distributional consequences
P Gottschalk, B Wolfe… - 1989 - University of Wisconsin--Madison, …
It is now widely recognised that earnings inequality grew rapidly in the United States during
the 1970s and 1980s. 1 The average earnings of educated workers pulled further apart from
those of the less educated, and young workers lost relatively to prime-aged workers. 2 Not ...
[CITATION] Wage Mobility Within and Between Jobs: How Prevalent is Downward Mobility?
P Gottschalk - Low-Wage Employment, Earnings Mobility and the …, 2000
D Feaster,
P Gottschalk… - The Journal of Human Resources, 1987 - JSTOR
In 1981 Congress enacted major changes in Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC) as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA). These tightened eligibility
rules and raised the tax rate on earnings. Prior to the OBRA legislation AFDC allowed ...
[CITATION] Trends in the autocovariance structure of earnings in the US: 1969-1987
P Gottschalk… - manuscript, Department of Economics, Brown …, 1995
P Gottschalk, E McEntarfer… - Boston College Working …, 2008 - fmwww.bc.edu
Prepared for presentation at the meetings of the American Economic Association, San
Francisco, January 2009. The authors would like to thank Shannon Phillips and Anna Blank
for outstanding research assistance. 1 This document reports the results of research and ...
S Danziger… - Unemployment insurance: the …, 1990 - books.google.com
This paper analyzes the unemployment insurance program as a component of the overall
income maintenance system for the unemployed. We focus on two different income
maintenance functions—protection against earnings losses and protection against poverty ...
[CITATION] Deductions Versus Credits Revisited
P Gottschalk - Nat'l Tax J., 1976
P Gottschalk - The low wage labor market: Challenges and …, 2000 - humanitas.nu
This essay reviews the evidence on the extent to which low-skilled workers gain from labor
market experience. Entry-level jobs for workers with few skills are viewed by some as
steppingstones to better jobs. Others see them as the first in a string of dead-end jobs. Is ...
P Gottschalk… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 - MIT Press
Abstract Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect
attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of
measurement error and earnings. While classical measurement error would increase ...
[CITATION] Retrenchment in antipoverty programs in the United States: Lessons for the future
P Gottschalk - The Reagan Revolution, 1988
[CITATION] The Reagan retrenchment in historical context
B Gottschalk… - Remaking the Welfare State: Retrenchment and Social …, 1988
[CITATION] Earnings, Transfers, and Poverty Reduction
P Gottschalk… - 1978 - … of Income Security Policy,; Office of …
[CITATION] What's behind the Increase in Inequality
P Gottschalk, BA Gustafsson… - The Distribution of Economic Well-Being …, 1996
P Gottschalk… - Journal of Global Information …, 2002 - igi-global.com
Abstract With increasing globalization of business, the management of IT in international
organizations is faced with the complex task of dealing with the difference between local and
international IT needs. This study evaluates, and compares, the level of IT maturity and the ...
Abstract: Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect
attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of
measurement error and earnings. While classical measurement error would increase ...
[CITATION] «Increasing Inequality in the US: What We Know and What We Don't»
S Danziger… - Davidson, P. y Kregel, J.: Macroeconomic Problems …, 1989
[CITATION] Trends in Earnings Volatility in the US: 1970-2002
P Gottschalk… - Meetings of the American Economic Association, 2007
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