Research
Immigration and the Economic Status of African-American Men
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose.
The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his controversial review of books by Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, and
Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive.
On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures.
The Global Gender Gap Report
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third position behind Finland (2).
Inequality in Cities
Much of the inequality literature has focused on national inequality, but local inequality is also important.
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality.
Poverty and Poverty Alleviation Strategies in North America
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States.
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