Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

John M. Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney & Nellie L. Zhao
Published Date
Copyright 2018
DOI 10.1086/694104
CONFERENCE HELD November 13-14, 2015
Book: Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck
Book organizers: Edward Lazear & Kathryn Shaw
PUBLISHER: Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1

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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
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