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Declining Union Contract Coverage and Increasing Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Qinglin Hu,Dean M. Hanink +1 more
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In this article, the association between the institutional factor of union contract coverage rates among workers and the variation in income inequality across a set of sixty-four metropolitan areas of the US.Abstract:
We focus on the association between the institutional factor of union contract coverage rates among workers and the variation in income inequality across a set of sixty-four metropolitan areas of t...read more
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Gender, Inequality, and Wages
TL;DR: In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men The gender wage gap has existed for many years, although there have been some important changes over time This volume of collected papers contains extensive research on progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities.
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Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done About It
TL;DR: The Spectacular State as mentioned in this paper explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, where the main protagonists are the cultural elites involved in the elaboration of new state-sponsored mass-spectacle national holidays: Navro'z (Zoroastrian New Year) and Independence Day.
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How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility
TL;DR: This article examined unionism's relationship to the size of the middle class and its relationship to intergenerational mobility and found that union workers are disproportionately in the middle-income group or above, and some reach middle income status due to the union wage premium.
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A Look at Geographic Differences in Income and Cost of Living
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between income and cost of living, two key components of regional economic well-being, and found that if high-income (or low-income) areas are also high-cost (or lo...
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Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998
Thomas Piketty,Emmanuel Saez +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that the large shocks that capital owners experienced during the Great Depression and World War II have had a permanent effect on top capital incomes and argued that steep progressive income and estate taxation may have prevented large fortunes from fully recovering from these shocks.
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Measuring Social Class in US Public Health Research: Concepts, Methodologies, and Guidelines
TL;DR: Concepts and methodologies concerning, and guidelines for measuring, social class and other aspects of socioeconomic position (e.g. income, poverty, deprivation, wealth, education) are discussed.
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Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Bruce Western,Jake Rosenfeld +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that the decline of organized labor explains a fifth to a third of the growth in inequality, an effect comparable to the growing stratification of wages by education, and that unions helped institutionalize norms of equity, reducing the dispersion of nonunion wages in highly unionized regions and industries.
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The Effect of State Policies on the Location of Manufacturing: Evidence from State Borders
TL;DR: This article found that, on average, there is a large, abrupt increase in manufacturing activity when one crosses a state border from an antibusiness state into a pro-business state.
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Income inequality and mortality in metropolitan areas of the United States.
John Lynch,George A. Kaplan,Elsie R. Pamuk,Richard D. Cohen,K. E. Heck,Jennifer L. Balfour,Irene H. Yen +6 more
TL;DR: Higher income inequality is associated with increased mortality at all per capita income levels, and public and private sector initiatives to reduce economic inequalities should be a high priority.
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