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Three Essays On Inequality In The United States, Gowun Park
Three Essays On Inequality In The United States, Gowun Park
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is about inequality of income in the United States. The first essay examines how inequality in total personal income relates to the inequality in each income component, such as wage income, interest income, transfer income, and so forth. The second essay analyzes the percentile shares of wages to find the factors that contribute to U.S. wage inequality. Furthermore, wage inequality is decomposed into the parts that are explained and unexplained by these contributing factors. The third essay distinguishes the proportion of the overall inequality that is due to pre-determined conditions of an individual.
Chapter 1: The Source of …