Does income mobility equalize longer-term incomes? New measures of an old concept

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-427

  Fields, Gary S ^a,b  

^a School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equalization; France; Income mobility; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049291903     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-009-9115-6     Document Type: Article

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