Income Inequality and Education

Sociological Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 454-477

  Breen, Richard ^a   Chung, Inkwan ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition analysis; Education; Half the squared coefficient of variation; Income inequality; Income mobility; NLSY79

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994703510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23306696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15195/v2.a22     Document Type: Article

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