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The rise of US earnings inequality: Does the cycle drive the trend?()

We document that declining hours worked are the primary driver of widening inequality in the bottom half of the male labor earnings distribution in the United States over the past 52 years. This decline in hours is heavily concentrated in recessions: hours and earnings at the bottom fall sharply in...

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Autores principales: Heathcote, Jonathan, Perri, Fabrizio, Violante, Giovanni L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2020.06.002