The correlation of spouses' permanent and transitory earnings and family earnings inequality in Canada

Labour Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 756-768

  Ostrovsky, Yuri ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Covariance structure; Earnings inequality; Family earnings; Permanent earnings; Transitory earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865992976     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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