Measuring Income Inequality and Economic Mobility

Ann Macheras

Econ Focus, 2016, issue 1Q, 32-35

Abstract: Measures of income inequality and economic mobility have been gaining the public's and policymakers' attention in recent years. This is due, in part, to a long-run trend of increasing income inequality in the United States since 1979.

Date: 2016
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