Earnings inequality and the business cycle

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-89

  Barlevy, Gadi ^a,b   Tsiddon, Daniel ^c,d  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Great Depression; Human capital; Inequality; Stochastic Ben Porath model

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 28844435681     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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