Robert Frank speaks at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and the Economic Policy Institute. See also the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied this talk.

Introduction to Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and the Economic Policy Institute.

Robert Frank's PowerPoint presentation to accompany his talk at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and the Economic Policy Institute. See also the audio file of this talk.

In this article, I investigate whether the stratifying impact of new house construction intensified along with growing inequality and changing house structures using a variety of U.S. Census Bureau sources, examining both trends in the income level of new house buyers and the relationship of housing growth to affluent residential segregation.

The authors analyze social fluidity among Swedish men and women using a series of 24 annual surveys, 1976–99 (N=63,280). A theoretical model suggests that changes in fluidity are normally driven by cohort rather than period effects. The results support this argument: changes in fluidity between the mid‐1970s and late 1990s were due to the successive replacement of older and less fluid, by younger and more fluid, cohorts.

We find little evidence that female occupations provide either low penalties for intermittent employment or high starting wages, the advantages human capital theorists have argued them to have. Rather, there is evidence of pay discrimination against men and women in predominantly female occupations.

This study examines factors related to within-occupation wage inequality among service and sales workers in the telecommunications industry. The author draws on a 1998 survey of a nationally representative sample of 354 service and sales centers in the industry to examine the importance of management practices and union institutions in shaping wage variation.

This paper investigates the effect of increased import competition on U. S. manufacturing employment and wages, using data for a panel of manufacturing industries over the 1977-1987 period.

By examining the hopes and fears of whites and especially of blacks of various social classes, Hochschild demonstrates that America's only unifying vision -- the American dream-- may soon vanish in the face of racial conflict and discontent.