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  • Inequality of after tax labor income has increased by 25 percent in the 1972-98 period. Yet consumption inequality has risen less than 2...

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Krueger, Dirk and Fabrizio Perri. "Does Income Inequality Lead To Consumption Inequality? Evidence And Theory," Review of Economic Studies, 2006, v73(1,Jan), 163-193.

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