scholarly journals Assortative Mating and Labor Income Inequality: Evidence from Fifty Years of Coupling in the U.S.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishant Yonzan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Reference Distribution ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half ◽  
The U.S

Labor income inequality among couples has increased by 33 percent in the U.S. over the past half-century. Over the same period, the correlation of labor income within couples has also increased sharply. Is this increase in sorting over labor income a cause for the rise of labor income inequality among couples? Using the March supplement of the CPS, first, I find that there has been a sharp increase in positive sorting over labor income in the U.S. in the 1970-2018 period. The top decile of men’s earners married to the top decile of women’s earners has doubled from 10.6 percent in 1970 to 23.3 percent in 2018. Second, I use a bounded copula framework as a reference distribution to track the relative changes in labor income inequality among couples. Using this framework, I find that positive sorting over labor income did play a role in increasing labor income inequality among couples in the 1970-1990 period; however, I find little evidence to suggest that this relationship existed in the 1990-2018 period. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)

scholarly journals Statistics of melanoma in Russia and Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Fatima D. Erkenova ◽  
S. N. Puzin
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Skin Melanoma ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

The article considers the laws of the epidemic process of skin melanoma in Russia and European countries over the past half-century. Attention is given to the sharp increase in incidence worldwide, and, particularly in Russia. Increasing incidence occurs mainly due to the popularization of outdoor recreation, the fashion for intense tan and frequent tourist trips to mountainous regions and tropical countries. Early diagnosis and prevention are the main measures for reducing the growth of morbidity and mortality from skin melanoma.

Islamic Studies in U.S. Universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kurzman ◽  
Carl W. Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Past Half ◽  
The U.S

As in Europe, Islamic studies in the U.S. originated in the tradition of Orientalist scholarship and Christian theology, with its strong textual emphasis, but it has gradually expanded to overlap with Middle East area studies as well as a number of humanistic and social science disciplines, especially religious studies. Over the past several decades, and especially since 9/11, scholarly interest in Islamic studies has mushroomed. This interest is visible in the number of doctoral dissertations produced on Islam and Muslims over the past half-century. As a percentage of all dissertations in the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Database, Islamic studies themes grew from less than one percent prior to the late 1970s to three percent in the 1980s and 1990s, to over four percent since 2001 (see Figure l).

scholarly journals Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ranaldi ◽  
Branko Milanovic
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Relationship

The paper investigates the relationship betweencapitalism systems and their levels of income andcompositional inequality (how the composition ofincome between capital and labor varies along incomedistribution). Capitalism may be seen to range betweenClassical Capitalism, where the rich have only capitalincome, and the rest have only labor income, andLiberal Capitalism, where many people receive bothcapital and labor incomes. Using a new methodologyand data from 47 countries over the past 25 years, weshow that higher compositional inequality is associatedwith higher inter-personal inequality. Nordic countriesare exceptional because they combine highcompositional inequality with low inter-personalinequality. We speculate on the emergence ofhomoploutic societies where income composition maybe the same for all, but Gini inequality nonethelesshigh, and introduce a new taxonomy of capitalistsocieties. (Stone Center Working Paper Series)

scholarly journals New Left Encounters with Marx

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Dick Howard
Keyword(s):  
New Left ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Theoretical Project ◽  
The Ideal

The article uses the ideal of a New Left to conceptualize the underlying unity of diverse political experiences during the past half century. Although Marx is not the direct object of this reconstruction, his specter is a recurring presence at those “nodal points” where the imperative to move to “another element” becomes apparent. These are moments when the spirit that has animated a movement can advance no further; it is faced with new obstacles, which may be self-created. The article analyzes from a participant’s perspective the development of the New Left in the U.S., France and West Germany as it tried to articulate what is dubbed the "unknown dimension" of Marx’s theoretical project.

scholarly journals Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ranaldi ◽  
Branko Milanovic
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Relationship

The paper investigates the relationship betweencapitalism systems and their levels of income andcompositional inequality (how the composition ofincome between capital and labor varies along incomedistribution). Capitalism may be seen to range betweenClassical Capitalism, where the rich have only capitalincome, and the rest have only labor income, andLiberal Capitalism, where many people receive bothcapital and labor incomes. Using a new methodologyand data from 47 countries over the past 25 years, weshow that higher compositional inequality is associatedwith higher inter-personal inequality. Nordic countriesare exceptional because they combine highcompositional inequality with low inter-personalinequality. We speculate on the emergence ofhomoploutic societies where income composition maybe the same for all, but Gini inequality nonethelesshigh, and introduce a new taxonomy of capitalistsocieties. (Stone Center Working Paper Series) Revised

EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

Reframing the Sciences of the Long Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Giuliano Pancaldi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Past Half

Here I survey a sample of the essays and reviews on the sciences of the long eighteenth century published in this journal since it was founded in 1969. The connecting thread is some historiographic reflections on the role that disciplines—in both the sciences we study and the fields we practice—have played in the development of the history of science over the past half century. I argue that, as far as disciplines are concerned, we now find ourselves a bit closer to a situation described in our studies of the long eighteenth century than we were fifty years ago. This should both favor our understanding of that period and, hopefully, make the historical studies that explore it more relevant to present-day developments and science policy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50,” edited by Erika Lorraine Milam.

Pakistan’s Development: Successes, Failures, and Future Tasks (Presidential Remarks)

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (4I) ◽  
pp. 321-331
Author(s):  
Sarfraz Khan Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Do So

It is an honour for me as President of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists to welcome you to the 13th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Society. I consider it a great privilege to do so as this Meeting coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the state of Pakistan, a state which emerged on the map of the postwar world as a result of the Muslim freedom movement in the Indian Subcontinent. Fifty years to the date, we have been jubilant about it, and both as citizens of Pakistan and professionals in the social sciences we have also been thoughtful about it. We are trying to see what development has meant in Pakistan in the past half century. As there are so many dimensions that the subject has now come to have since its rather simplistic beginnings, we thought the Golden Jubilee of Pakistan to be an appropriate occasion for such stock-taking.

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