Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 21-40

  Gottschalk, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0002087916     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.2.21     Document Type: Article

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