Garfinkel / Haveman Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6052-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Web PDF

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality describes the development and application of a way to measure economic status that will avoid some mistakes occurring in methods of measurement. The book reviews the concept of earnings capacity through different measures of economic status. The authors discuss the procedures used in estimating family revenue, sources of data, and inherent weaknesses in such measures. They consider the degree to which different groups classified by age, sex, race, or economic status use their earnings capacity. The authors compare income utilization of those who are considered poor using both measures of earning capacity and current income. Then, a common government and academic policy known as the target efficient - the proportion of total benefits allocated to poor families - is discussed. The authors cite two important factors: 1) estimates of target efficiency are affected by how poverty is defined and 2) target efficiency of transfer programs changes when the economic status method is used instead of the income method. The authors also examine the effects of labor market discrimination on the earning differences between two races. The text will prove useful for sociologists, psychologists, economists, and students of political science and population demographics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garfinkel, Irwin

Haveman, Robert H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Covre;1
2;Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents ;8
5;Foreword;12
6;Preface;16
7;Chapter 1. Measuring Economic Status: The Concept of Earnings Capacity;20
7.1;Alternative Measures of Economic Status;22
7.2;The Present Study;25
8;Chapter 2. The Measurement of Earnings Capacity;27
8.1;Data and Methodology;27
8.2;Weaknesses in the Measure of Earnings Capacity;37
9;Chapter 3. Economic Inequality and the Utilization of Earnings Capacity;41
9.1;Aggregate Capacity Utilization and Its Components;43
9.2;Patterns of Capacity Utilization within the Nonaged Population;46
9.3;Earnings Capacity and Economic Inequality;54
9.4;Conclusions;61
10;Chapter 4. Earnings Capacity and Poverty;63
10.1;The Earnings Capacity Poor and the Current Income Poor;63
10.2;Determinants of Poverty Status Based on Earnings Capacity and Current Income;71
10.3;The Probability of Poverty Status for Various Family Types;76
10.4;Conclusions;78
11;Chapter 5. Earnings Capacity and the Target Efficiency of Income Transfer Policies;80
12;Chapter 6. Labor Market Discrimination and Black–White Differences in Economic Status;89
12.1;Racial Differences in Economic Status;90
12.2;The Role of Labor Market Discrimination;93
12.3;Conceptual Framework and Empirical Problems;93
12.4;Empirical Procedure and Assumptions;97
12.5;Measuring the Effect of Labor Market Discrimination;98
12.6;Estimates of Labor Market Discrimination;102
12.7;Reliability of the Methodology;103
12.8;Labor Market Discrimination and the Distribution of Earnings Capacity;105
12.9;Labor Market Discrimination and Inequality;107
12.10;Conclusions;109
13;Chapter 7. Earnings Capacity and Economic Status: Summary;110
13.1;A Summary and Some Policy Implications;110
13.2;A Look Back and a Look Ahead;114
14;Appendix A: Estimating Lorenz Curves and Gini Coefficients;118
15;Appendix B: Effect of Randomization on Estimates of Earnings Capacity;120
16;Appendix C: Composition of the Earnings Capacity and Current Income Poor in the Nonaged Population;124
17;Appendix D: Earnings Functions from Michigan Income Dynamics Panel Study Data;128
18;Appendix .: Upper and Lower Bound

Measures of the Role of

Labor Market Discrimination;131
19;References;134
20;Institute for Research on Poverty Monograph Series;138