Inequality and Poverty When Effort Matters
On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income gradie...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Econometrics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/5/4/50 |