Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising in Other Industrialized Countries ?-- the Role of Institutional Constraints
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Statistics. The views expressed are not attributable to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We would like to thank Tim Smeeding and Lee Rainwater for the years of work it has taken to put the LIS data set together.
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