Public employment and earnings inequality: An analysis based on conditional and unconditional quantile regressions

Economics Letters

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-266

  Fournier, Jean Marc ^a   Koske, Isabell ^a  

^a OECD ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Public employment; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884199195     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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