Consumption Inequality and Income Uncertainty
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 113 (2) , 603-640
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355398555694
Abstract
This paper places the debate over using consumption or income in studies of inequality growth in a formal intertemporal setting. It highlights the imKeywords
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