Trends in the intergenerational elasticity of family income in the United States

Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-50

  Hertz, Tom ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845706483     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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