Levels and trends in the income mobility of U.S. families, 1977−2012
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income mobility; income inequality; income distribution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2016-09-11 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2016-09-11 (Labour Economics)
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