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Order Code RL34434
Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Economic
Policy: U.S. Trends in the 1980s and 1990s
April 4, 2008
Thomas L. Hungerford
Specialist in Public Finance
Government and Finance Division
Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Economic
Policy: U.S. Trends in the 1980s and 1990s
Summary
Income inequality has been increasing in the United States over the past 25
years. Several factors have been identified as possibly contributing to increasing
income inequality. Some researchers have suggested the decline in unionization and
a falling real minimum wage as the primary causes. Others have argued that rising
returns to education and skill-biased technological change are the important factors
explaining rising inequality. Most analysts agree that the likely explanation for rising
income inequality is due to skill-biased technological changes combined with a
change in institutions and norms, of which a falling minimum wage and declining
unionization are a part.
Since most people are concerned with upward mobility, and given the central
importance of income mobility to the debate over income inequality, this report
examines the relation between income mobility and inequality. Income mobility
studies are an important complement to income inequality studies — income
inequality does not address the issue of whether or not the poor are getting poorer,
whereas income mobility does.
While there appears to be considerable relative income mobility (about 60% of
individuals change income quintiles over 10 years), it is not far — about 60% of
those individuals who chan
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