Convergence in Income Inequality: Further Evidence from the Club Clustering Methodology Across the U.S. States
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Convergence in Income Inequality: Further Evidence from the Club Clustering Methodology across the U.S. States
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on inequality convergence by empirically testing convergence across the U.S. States. This sample period encompasses a series of different periods that are discussed in the existing literature -the Great Depression (19291944), the Great Compression (1945-1979), the Great Divergence (1980-present), the Great Moderation (1982-2007), and the Great Rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2623724