Tekijä: | Daly, M.C. Valletta, R.G. |
Otsikko: | Inequality and poverty in United States: The effects of rising dispersion of men's earnings and changing family behaviour |
Lehti: | Economica
2006 : FEB, VOL. 73:289, p. 75-98 |
Asiasana: | earnings gender families incomes inequality poverty USA |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | Based on semiparametric density estimation techniques, this stydy analyzes the effect of rising dispersion (hereafter as: disp.) of men's earnings (here as: m-erns.) and related changes in family (as: f.) behaviour on increasing inequality (as: in-eqy.) in the distribution of f. income in the U.S. For the period from 1969 to 1989, the growing disp. of m-erns. and changing f. structure can account for most of the rise in f. income in-eqy. By contrast, the increase in labour force participation by women offset this trend. In-eqy. grew at a slower rate in the 1990s than in earlier decades, largely due to stabilization in the relative earnings of men from low-income families. |
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