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Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income

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Blank, Rebecca M

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This paper disaggregates total household income into a complete set of components and studies the comparative cyclicality of these components. The cyclical responsiveness of total household income, wages, hours of work and total labor market income of heads and wives, and transfer income is compared across income, race, sex, and age groups. This provides a picture of the channels by which economic cyclicality produces income change. Significant differences in elasticities are found to exist both between different income components and between different population groups for the same components. The narrowing income distribution in times of high growth occurs primarily because of large elasticities on head's labor market income among the poor. Both wages and hours show evidence of cyclicality. The labor market earnings of women--both wives and household heads--are far less responsive to growth. Cyclicality in transfer income varies enormously between population groups and by type of transfer. Copyright 1989 by The London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Volume (Year): 56 (1989)
Issue (Month): 222 (May)
Pages: 141-63
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