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What Do We Really Know about Wages? The Importance of Nonreporting and Census Imputation

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  1. Patrick Kline & Andres Santos, 2013. "Sensitivity to missing data assumptions: Theory and an evaluation of the U.S. wage structure," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 4(2), pages 231-267, July.
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  41. Christian Dustmann & Francesca Fabbri, 2005. "Gender and Ethnicity--Married Immigrants in Britain," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 21(3), pages 462-484, Autumn.
  42. Fernández-Val, Iván & Peracchi, Franco & van Vuuren, Aico & Vella, Francis, 2020. "Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016," IZA Discussion Papers 13016, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  43. Iv'an Fern'andez-Val & Franco Peracchi & Aico van Vuuren & Francis Vella, 2020. "Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976-2019," Papers 2002.11211, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2021.
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  47. Winters, John V. & Hirsch, Barry, 2012. "An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings," IZA Discussion Papers 6766, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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