Comments on: Comparing Income Series http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/ Sun, 13 May 2012 01:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Roy http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Roy Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:12:31 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/#comment-103 It would be helpful to have the option to see this graph on a log scale to better show % changes over such a long period of time. The Great Depression doesn't look so great in this view. Maybe it wasn't ! but log scale would make that clear. Thanks! It would be helpful to have the option to see this graph on a log scale to better show % changes over such a long period of time. The Great Depression doesn’t look so great in this view. Maybe it wasn’t ! but log scale would make that clear. Thanks!

]]> By: Venkat Venkatasubramanian http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Venkat Venkatasubramanian Fri, 22 May 2009 04:32:28 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/#comment-102 Dear Catherine: Just found your website by chance. Excellent work! Congratulations! It's a great service you are doing the society. I am doing research on wage distribution inequalities. Do you know where I can get such data for the US, Europe and Japan? Company specific data would be great, but I suppose that'd be hard to get. Many thanks. Best, Venkat Professor of Chemical Engg, Purdue University Dear Catherine:

Just found your website by chance. Excellent work! Congratulations! It’s a great service you are doing the society.

I am doing research on wage distribution inequalities. Do you know where I can get such data for the US, Europe and Japan? Company specific data would be great, but I suppose that’d be hard to get. Many thanks.

Best,

Venkat
Professor of Chemical Engg, Purdue University

]]> By: Peter Schaeffer http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Peter Schaeffer Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:21:32 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/#comment-101 Was this from an Excel spreadsheet? How did you generate the chart? Excel? Could you please send me a copy of the spreadsheet. Thank you. You have my Email address. Was this from an Excel spreadsheet? How did you generate the chart? Excel? Could you please send me a copy of the spreadsheet. Thank you. You have my Email address.

]]> By: Peter Schaeffer http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Peter Schaeffer Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:44:46 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/#comment-100 The table is a good one. However, you should have added a line for "Families - Wife Not in Paid Labor Force". This number rose from $22,028 in 1950 to $42,049 in 1973 and is unchanged ($42,221 in 2004) since. In other words, essentially all gains in family income since 1973 have come from increasing effort (wives working) rather than rising wages/salaries. Given that BLS GDP per worker has soared since 1973, this is quite revealing. Thank you Peter Schaeffer The table is a good one. However, you should have added a line for “Families – Wife Not in Paid Labor Force”. This number rose from $22,028 in 1950 to $42,049 in 1973 and is unchanged ($42,221 in 2004) since. In other words, essentially all gains in family income since 1973 have come from increasing effort (wives working) rather than rising wages/salaries. Given that BLS GDP per worker has soared since 1973, this is quite revealing.

Thank you

Peter Schaeffer

]]> By: joan http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/comment-page-1/#comment-99 joan Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:55:58 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2006/09/02/comparing-income-series/#comment-99 The Blog <a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/09/krugman_on_trac.html" rel="nofollow">economistview</a> has list of the best sources for income data. The Blog economistview has list of the best sources for income data.

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