Long-run changes in the wage structure: Narrowing, widening, polarizing

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-165

  Goldin, Claudia ^a   Katz, Lawrence F ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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