Journal Article
Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability
Authors
Publication date
2008
Abstract
We compare trends in earnings inequality in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Estimation of a heterogeneous growth model of permanent and transitory earnings variation reveals substantial convergence in the permanent component of inequality in these countries during the 1990s.
Published in
Economics Letters
Volume
99 (2):215-219
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.019
Subjects
Labour Economics and Wages And Earnings
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/search/s?SEARCH=economics+letters&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=5
Notes
Previously 'In press, corrected proof' Feb.2008; Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to Univ. Essex registered users*
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