Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 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.

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Economics Letters

Volume

Volume: 99 (2):215-219

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.019

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Notes

Previously 'In press, corrected proof' Feb.2008

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