Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races.
Using unique linked data, we examine income inequality and mobility across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Our data encompass the universe of income tax filers in the United States for the period 2000-2014, matched with individual-level race and ethnicity information from multiple cen...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 999 - 1022 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=137162046&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 137162046 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00703370 DEM jtl: Demography (Springer Nature) issn: 00703370 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2019 vid: 56 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 137162046 10.1007/s13524-019-00773-7 ppf: 999 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 822KB tig: atl: Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races. aug: au: Akee, Randall Jones, Maggie R. Porter, Sonya R. affil: Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, 20036, Washington, DC, USA Department of Public Policy, UCLA, 3250 Public Affairs Building, 90095-1656, Los Angeles, CA, USA National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, 4600 Silver Hill Road, 20746, Suitland, MD, USA su: United States Income inequality Racism American Community Survey Ethnic groups Native Americans sug: subj: Income inequality Racism American Community Survey Ethnic groups Native Americans United States keyword: Administrative data Income mobility Income shares Race Administrative data Income mobility Income shares Race ab: Using unique linked data, we examine income inequality and mobility across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Our data encompass the universe of income tax filers in the United States for the period 2000-2014, matched with individual-level race and ethnicity information from multiple censuses and American Community Survey data. We document both income inequality and mobility trends over the period. We find significant stratification in terms of average incomes by racial/ethnic group and distinct differences in within-group income inequality. The groups with the highest incomes-whites and Asians-also have the highest levels of within-group inequality and the lowest levels of within-group mobility. The reverse is true for the lowest-income groups: blacks, American Indians, and Hispanics have lower within-group inequality and immobility. On the other hand, low-income groups are also highly immobile in terms of overall, rather than within-group, mobility. These same groups also have a higher probability of experiencing downward mobility compared with whites and Asians. We also find that within-group income inequality increased for all groups between 2000 and 2014, and the increase was especially large for whites. The picture that emerges from our analysis is of a rigid income structure, with mainly whites and Asians positioned at the top and blacks, American Indians, and Hispanics confined to the bottom. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: journal article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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