The Last Will be First, and the First Last: Segregation in Societies with Relative Pay-off Concerns*
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عنوان ژورنال: The Economic Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0013-0133,1468-0297
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa083