Journal Article

Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability

By Mary C. Daly and Robert G. Valletta

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Economics Letters
Volume
99 (2):215-219
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.019

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.

Notes

Previously 'In press, corrected proof' Feb.2008

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