Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 75-96

  Fortin, Nicole M ^b   Lemieux, Thomas ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0002018360     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.2.75     Document Type: Article

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