The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap
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Keywords
Wealth Dynamics; Racial Inequality;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2019-11-11 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LMA-2019-11-11 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2019-11-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-ORE-2019-11-11 (Operations Research)
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