What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the US?
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JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LTV-2004-03-07 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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