Labor earnings mobility and inequality in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s

International Economic Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 775-794

  Burkhauser, Richard V ^a   Holtz Eakin, Douglas ^a   Rhody, Stephen E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; INCOME INEQUALITY; LABOUR MARKET; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

GERMANY; USA;

EID: 0031401387     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2527215     Document Type: Article

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