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Effects of Well-Adjusted Maternity Leave on the Gender Wage Gap: A Preliminary Framework
Since the 1980s, wage convergence between men and women has been slow and inconsistent across high-income nations. Moreover, long-established explanations such that of human capital factors more so explain the gender wage ...
Identifying Inequality in Recommendations: A Framework and Experimental Study
Recommender systems have become increasingly prevalent online within the last two decades and are used extensively on social media and networking platforms. We look at one such platform, LinkedIn, which serves the purpose ...
Elderly Entitlements and Wealth Inequality
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-12-21)
By most measures, wealth inequality has risen significantly over the last three decades and is a growing concern. However, standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a legal claim to assets included as ...
Social Security Wealth and Federal Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-02-15)
In the U.S., wealth inequality has risen in recent years. However, past estimates of wealth inequality tend to ignore Social Security benefits – even though these accrued benefits are almost 40% of the size of conventional ...
Poverty in the U.S.
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2023-05-02)
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, the U.S. poverty rate declined from 19% to 11.6% in 2021, but one may wonder why it has not dropped further. In this issue of PERCspectives ...