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Author: Angle, John
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1. Angle, John
Dynamics of the Inequality Process
Presented: Chicago, IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1999
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Income; Modeling; Social Influences; Wealth

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The inequality process (IP) is a model of competition for wealth, derived from the surplus theory of social stratification. The IP models the stock concept of wealth to explain the flow concept of wealth, income. Here, derived are the IP dynamics of individual wealth conditioned on the IP parameter for education: (1) gains independent of the size of wealth; (2) losses proportional to the size of wealth; (3) a smaller proportion lost when a loss is incurred, the greater the IP analogue of education; & (4) mean gain equal to the size of loss only at the mean of wealth of those with the same parameter for level education. Year-to-year differences of individual wage & salary incomes in the 1990s in the 1979 panel of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show (A) year-to-year increases independent of the size of wage & salary income; (B) mean year-to-year decreases directly proportional to the size of wage & salary income; (C) for those with year-to-year decreases, a mean proportional decrease smaller for the more educated; & (D) mean year-to-year increase approximately equals mean loss at the mean wage & salary income of those with the same education. The IP hypotheses are confirmed empirically.
Bibliography Citation
Angle, John. "Dynamics of the Inequality Process." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1999.
2. Angle, John
Statistical Signature of Pervasive Competition on Wage and Salary Incomes
The Journal of Mathematical Sociology 26,4 (December 2002): 217-270
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Income Dynamics/Shocks; Longitudinal Data Sets; Wage Dynamics

Population biologists and comparative animal behaviorists assume that competition between members of the same species allocates resource utility, but they cannot validate that assumption without a unidimensional measure of resource utility such as money, which they do not have since they leave humans to the social sciences. One of the social sciences, economics, takes the point of view that pervasive zero-sum competition between people does not determine wage and salary incomes. The present article validates the assumption of population biology and comparative animal behavior that competition within a species allocates resource utility by finding the statistical signature of pervasive zero-sum competition in longitudinal data on individual wage and salary incomes.
Bibliography Citation
Angle, John. "Statistical Signature of Pervasive Competition on Wage and Salary Incomes." The Journal of Mathematical Sociology 26,4 (December 2002): 217-270.
3. Angle, John
Work and Earnings: Cumulative Experience Method of Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys
Sociological Methods and Research 8,2 (November 1979): 209-232.
Also: http://smr.sagepub.com/content/8/2/209.abstract
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Earnings; Life Cycle Research; Schooling; Work Experience

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Conventional methods of model construction and testing are not well suited to the features of large longitudinal survey data sets. Conventional methods assume (1) equal time intervals between observations, (2) simultaneous observations, and (3) that missing observations are rare. As a result, the analysis of whole multiwave sets of longitudinal surveys becomes virtually impossible as the num ber of waves increases. This paper poses a research question about how a per son's work experience affects his or her earnings and shows how the Cumulative Experience Method (CEM) can provide an answer to the question using all available information in a longitudinal data set. CEM interpolates a person's experience between observation points and weights these inferred observations by the inverse of their expected error. The linear interpolation and weighting procedure of CEM accommodates easily to missing observations where these occur between earlier and later observations.
Bibliography Citation
Angle, John. "Work and Earnings: Cumulative Experience Method of Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys." Sociological Methods and Research 8,2 (November 1979): 209-232.
4. Angle, John
Steiber, Stevens
Wissmann, David A.
Educational Indicators and Occupational Achievement
Social Science Research 9,1 (March 1980): 60-75.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0049089X80900083
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Education Indicators; Educational Attainment; Occupational Attainment

This paper uses surveys of young men and women 14-24 and examines whether 'highest grade completed' is a sufficient measure of education for use in models of occupational achievement. The data on which this paper are based are: approximate information on what subjects were taken, quality of education, degrees received, and number of years completed. The findings indicate that 'highest grade completed' adequately measures the impact of education on occupational achievement, though the other indicators slightly affect this outcome as well.
Bibliography Citation
Angle, John, Stevens Steiber and David A. Wissmann. "Educational Indicators and Occupational Achievement." Social Science Research 9,1 (March 1980): 60-75.
5. Angle, John
Wissmann, David A.
Gender, College Major, and Earnings
Sociology of Education 54,1 (January 1981): 25-33.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2112510
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Discrimination, Sex; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Schooling, Post-secondary

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This study tests the effect of a person's college major upon his or her hourly wage rate in order to see if the content learned in college explains the gap between the earnings of men and women. The results indicate that the direct effect of gender on the earnings of people with at least some college education is large and that controlling for field of study reduces the gap only slightly. In addition, the findings also show that young women's returns to a year of post-secondary education are higher than young men's, however, not enough to offset the negative effect of being female on earnings.
Bibliography Citation
Angle, John and David A. Wissmann. "Gender, College Major, and Earnings." Sociology of Education 54,1 (January 1981): 25-33.
6. Angle, John
Wissmann, David A.
Work Experience, Age, and Gender Discrimination
Social Science Quarterly 64,1 (March 1983): 60-75
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Job Tenure; Wages

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Bibliography Citation
Angle, John and David A. Wissmann. "Work Experience, Age, and Gender Discrimination." Social Science Quarterly 64,1 (March 1983): 60-75.