Trends in american living standards and inequality, 1959-2007

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-232

  Wolff, Edward N ^a,b   Zacharias, Ajit ^b   Masterson, Thomas ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Levy Economics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Living standards; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860436094     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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