The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time,…
Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber. N. Gregory Mankiw, March 2010, Paper. "This essay discusses the…
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010. Ricardo Hausmann, 2010, Paper. "Nordic countries Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden continue to…
“Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows…
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Framing Race and Poverty. William Julius Wilson, November 1, 2009, Opinion. "One thing I know is that it’s extremely important to discuss…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…