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Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility

In: Handbook of Income Distribution

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  • Piketty, Thomas

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  • A.B. Atkinson & F. Bourguignon (ed.), 2000. "Handbook of Income Distribution," Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier, edition 1, volume 1, number 1.
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