How closely do top income shares track other measures of inequality?

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 524, 2007, Pages

  Leigh, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PANEL DATA; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 36549047121     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02099.x     Document Type: Article

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