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| Author: | Bishop, J. |
| Title: | Changing American earnings distributions: one-half century of experience |
| Journal: | Empirical Economics
1997 : VOL. 22:4, p. 501-514 |
| Index terms: | EARNINGS USA CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | recent increases in earnings inequality have been described as "enormous". Is it that we are experiencing a unique shift toward greater inequality or are we returning to a more normal state of affairs for the American economy? The recent availability of six decades of data together with important new developments in the theory and measurements of inequality invite a renewed look at the changes in earnings inequality over the past half century. The findings for male earnings suggest a dramatic contraction in inequality after 1939 followed by a steady rise in earnings inequality through 1989. |
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