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Regional income dynamics
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A comparison of poverty trends and policy impacts for working families using different poverty indexes
This study provides empirical evidence on recent trends in poverty among working families based on the headcount rate and a broader alternative that incorporates the headcount rate, the depth of poverty, and income inequality among the poor. Estimates reveal that the indexes produce significantly different trends. The headcount rate indicates a reduction in overall working poverty for the sample period, while the alternative index showed no statistically significant change. The same result was found for various population subgroups. Decompositions of the index changes show that tax changes ...
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Does inflation depress the stock market?
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Do African Americans prefer to live in segregated communities?
Following Hurricane Katrina, many people were shocked by the extent of racial segregation in the New Orleans housing market. And yet, New Orleans is far from an isolated case. Forty years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, racially segregated neighborhoods are all too common in the United States. The reasons usually offered for this continued segregation include discrimination in the real estate and housing markets. Recently, these reasons have been challenged by a theory claiming that segregation exists because African Americans prefer to live together for positive reasons, such as to ...
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Employee turnover and regional wage differentials
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Does monetary policy have differential regional effects?
Do monetary policy actions have a uniform national effect? Or do the separate, but interdependent, regions of the country respond differently to changes in policy? In this article, Jerry Carlino and Bob DeFina demonstrate that monetary policy does have differential effects across regions. They also examine three reasons why the effects may differ: regional differences in the mix of interest-sensitive industries, in the ability of banks to alter their balance sheets, and in the mix of large and small borrowers.
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How strong is co-movement in employment over the business cycle? Evidence from state/industry data
This study measures the extent of co-movement in employment across states and industries at business-cycle frequencies. The strength of co-movement is quantified using the bi-variate and multi-variate measures of cohesion developed in Crous, Forni, and Reichlin (2001). The data indicate that cohesion is generally positive for the state/industry pairs, although the distribution masses around a relatively low value. The results suggest that cohesion has risen over time and that cohesion increases with spatial aggregation. Evidence is presented revealing that the measured degree of co-movement ...