Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck

Edward Lazear & Kathryn Shaw, organizers
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Copyright 2018
CONFERENCE HELD November 13-14, 2015
PUBLISHER: Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1
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Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw. 2019. Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck. Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1. https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/firms-and-distribution-income-roles-productivity-and-luck.

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