Income Inequality and Household Labor.
Income inequality has increased dramatically in the United States since the mid-1970s. This remarkable change in the distribution of household income has spurred a great deal of research on the social and economic consequences of exposure to high inequality. However, the empirical record on the effe...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 481 - 506 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2017
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