Selected issues in the rise of income inequality

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-190

  Gordon, Robert J ^a   Dew Becker, Ian ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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