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Rising Family Income Inequality: The Importance of Sorting

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  • Deborah Reed
  • Maria Cancian

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This article found that changes in income sorting account for more than half of the increase in family income inequality in the United States over the past three decades.

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  • Deborah Reed & Maria Cancian, "undated". "Rising Family Income Inequality: The Importance of Sorting," Mathematica Policy Research Reports d59c8a54aea04a1fa5eab9135, Mathematica Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:mpr:mprres:d59c8a54aea04a1fa5eab913500a6aa0
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    1. Milan Bouchet-Valat, 2017. "Does women’s employment growth increase wage inequalities between couples? The case of France between 1982 and 2014," Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE), issue 493, pages 67-85.
    2. Inhoe Ku & Wonjin Lee & Seoyun Lee & Kyounghoon Han, 2018. "The Role of Family Behaviors in Determining Income Distribution: The Case of South Korea," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 55(3), pages 877-899, June.
    3. Pilar Gonalons-Pons & Christine R. Schwartz, 2017. "Trends in Economic Homogamy: Changes in Assortative Mating or the Division of Labor in Marriage?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 54(3), pages 985-1005, June.
    4. Emma Calvert & Tony Fahey, 2013. "The Impact of Income Inequality on the Family: A test of a thesis," Working Papers 201302, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    5. Diederik Boertien & Milan Bouchet-Valat, 2020. "Are Increasing Earnings Associations Between Partners of Concern for Inequality? A Comparative Study of 21 Countries," LIS Working papers 793, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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    Keywords

    Family Income ; Sorting; Family Support;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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