%0 Report
        %A Ritzen, Jo
%A Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        %T Fading Hope in the US
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6340
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6340
        %X A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back to rising inequality.
        %K confidence
%K ethnicity
%K hope
%K human capital
%K income inequality