Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Andrews, Dan ^a   Jencks, Christopher ^b   Leigh, Andrew ^c  

^a OECD   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

growth; income distribution; inequality; national income

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951534970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2617     Document Type: Article

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