The 1990s rise in Swedish earnings inequality - Persistent or transitory?

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Gustavsson, Magnus ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845533003     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500428039     Document Type: Article

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