Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States: 1979-2013
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Keywords
Inequality Decomposition; Within-Group Inequality; Income Distribution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2017-03-26 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-LTV-2017-03-26 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-PBE-2017-03-26 (Public Economics)
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