Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
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- Randall Akee & Maggie R. Jones & Sonya R. Porter, 2017. "Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races," NBER Working Papers 23733, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Income inequality; Income shares; Income mobility; Race; Administrative data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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