Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-58

  Heckman, James J ^a   Lochner, Lance ^a   Taber, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0003109811     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1997.0008     Document Type: Article

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