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Working Paper No. 416
January 20, 2005
Occupational and Industrial Mobility in the United States 1969–93
AbstractUsing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate occupational and industrial mobility of individuals over the 1969–80 and 1981–93 periods in the United States. We find that workers changed both occupations and industries more frequently in the later period. For example, occupational mobility for men ranged from 15 to 20 percent per year during […]
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Research Project Report
December 01, 2004
How Much Does Public Consumption Matter for Well-Being?
AbstractThis report supplements previous findings of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) research project within our program on the distribution of income and wealth. Some readers have questioned the sensitivity of our estimates in view of our imputation techniques. Therefore, the authors explore the sensitivity of their key findings to changes in the […]
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Research Project Report
September 22, 2004
How Much Does Wealth Matter for Well-Being?
AbstractEconomic well-being refers to the command or access by members of a household over the goods and services produced in a modern market economy during a given period of time.The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) is a comprehensive measure that is constructed as the sum of the following components: base money income (gross […]
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Working Paper No. 411
July 25, 2004
Financial Liberalization and Poverty
AbstractFinancial development and its effects on the economic development of a country has recently been one of the most prolific areas of research in the fields of development, finance, and international economics. So far, however, very little work has been done to analyze comprehensively the relationship between financial liberalization and poverty. There is still controversy […]
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Research Project Report
May 01, 2004
Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
AbstractThis report presents the latest findings of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) research project within our program on the distribution of income and wealth. It enhances previous findings about economic well-being and inequality in the United States by extending our analysis to include additional years, 1995 and 2001, and by comparing our […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 76
April 01, 2004
Asset Poverty in the United States
AbstractEconomic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which exhibited a sharp decline. According to Senior Scholar Edward N. Wolff and Research Scholar Asena Caner, poverty measures should include […]
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Research Project Report
February 12, 2004
Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
AbstractThe Levy Economics Institute has, since its inception, maintained an active research program on the distribution of earnings, income, and wealth. Experience from the 1990s suggests that economic growth alone cannot dramatically reduce economic inequality. Because we are concerned with the improvement of well being, we have initiated a research project, the Levy Institute Measure […]
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Research Project Report
December 09, 2003
Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
AbstractThe Levy Economics Institute has, since its inception, maintained an active research program on the distribution of earnings, income, and wealth. Experience from the 1990s suggests that economic growth alone cannot dramatically reduce economic inequality. Because we are concerned with the improvement of well being, we have initiated a research project, the Levy Institute Measure […]
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Working Paper No. 390
September 01, 2003
Savings of Entrepreneurs
AbstractPrevious work on entrepreneurship and wealth has documented that entrepreneurial households are wealthier and have higher wealth mobility. However, the literature has not paid attention to the components of wealth change. Furthermore, endogeneity problems in the measurement of the interaction between saving rates and entrepreneurship are not well addressed.In this paper, by reexamining the relationship […]
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Working Paper No. 386
September 01, 2003
Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States
Abstract*Preliminary draft. Please do not quote or cite without permission. Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants–household wealth and public consumption–in the context of the United States. Our […]
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Working Paper No. 356
October 01, 2002
Asset Poverty in the United States, 1984–1999
AbstractUsing PSID data for the years 1984 to 1999, we estimate the level and severity of asset poverty. Our results indicate that the share of asset-poor households remained almost the same and the severity of poverty increased during this period, despite the growth in the economy and the financial markets. The race, age, education, and […]
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