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![]() | Bergerson, Amy A. | Will work for a college education: an analysis of the role employment plays in the experiences of first-year college students | College students across the United States struggle with the challenges of balancing work and school. In 2005, 29.5% of full-time students worked over 20 hours a week while attending college, with 70.1% of their part-time counterparts in the workplace for 20 or more hours each week (NCES, 2005). Give... | Social class; Income; Hierarchy | 2007 |
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![]() | Jameson, Kenneth P. | Supply side economics: growth versus income distribution | This article discusses the supply-side policies of developing countries and the relationship between growth and income distribution leading to a equitable distribution of income, which have important implications for developed economies. The huge spurs to investment have aided growth but worsened in... | Economic development; Income; Progressive taxation; Developing countries | 1980-11 |
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![]() | Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: changes in income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | This study examines whether the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock have led to higher family incomes. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain poor. They have made modest econom... | Motherhood; Single Mothers; Income; Population surveys | 2006-07-26 |
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![]() | Schaefer, Scott; Hayes, Rachel | CEO pay and the Lake Wobegon effect | In this paper, we propose a new explanation for the recent increase in CEO pay at US firms. Our explanation, which is based on asymmetric information in financial markets, is motivated by a recent observation made by former DuPont CEO Edward S. Woolard, Jr.: "The main reason (CEO) compensation incre... | Business; Income; Compensation; Corporate Business | 2007-02-28 |