Income Instability

Income Instability is a dimension of economic insecurity characterized by frequent and unpredictable fluctuations in an individual’s or household’s income over time that undermine the capacity to plan for and reliably meet ongoing obligations such as housing costs.

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34.6K

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Authors

536

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Publications per year

2017–2026

159

Variants

Income Volatility

Parents

Homelessness

Children

Discontinuous EmploymentEmployment IntermittencyHousehold Budget InstabilityHousehold Income FluctuationIrregular EmploymentLabor Income InstabilityLabor Market InstabilityPaycheck-to-paycheck LivingSocial Safety Net DependenceWage Volatility

Publications

574

Consequences of growing up poor

Karie Frasch · Children and Youth Services Review · 1999 · 1.6K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology +10

Capital Market Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Instability

Joseph E. Stiglitz · World Development · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +14

The Instability of Capitalism

Joseph A. Schumpeter · The Economic Journal · 1928 · 846 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology +10

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt · The Journal of Human Resources · 1998 · 815 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Causal Inference +16

The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt, Lawrence F. Katz et al. · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 1994 · 776 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Labor Economics +13

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Authors

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Sharon Wolf
University of Pennsylvania, United States
4 publications · 253 citations
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Christian Ebeke
International Monetary Fund, United States
4 publications · 390 citations
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Heather D. Hill
University of Washington, United States
4 publications · 290 citations
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Hyman P. Minsky
Bard College, United States
4 publications · 301 citations
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Olga Cantó
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
3 publications · 111 citations
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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 37 publications · 1.3K citations
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World Development
11 publications · 2.8K citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 11 publications · 1.4K citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 9 publications · 239 citations
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Journal of Family and Economic Issues
8 publications · 338 citations
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