Divergent Inequalities -- Theory, Empirical Results and Prescriptions
Preprint
- 1 January 1996
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Widely used summary measures of inequality or the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclKeywords
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