Income distribution and growth: The Kuznets hypothesis revisited

Economica

Volumn 63, Issue 250 SUP, 1996, Pages

  Galor, Oded ^a   Tsiddon, Daniel ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INCOME INEQUALITY; KUZNETS HYPOTHESIS; MODELLING APPROACH; WAGE DIFFERENTIALS;

EID: 0030458706     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2554811     Document Type: Article

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