The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States
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- McKinley L. Blackburn & David E. Bloom, 1993. "The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States," NBER Chapters, in: Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States, pages 233-266, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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