The declining wealth of the middle class, 1983–2016.
This article considers trends in wealth at the middle and top of the distribution, with a particular focus on the period around the Great Recession. It illustrates that leverage rates of middle class families relative to high‐wealth families were beneficial to relative rates of return of middle clas...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 461 - 479 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2021
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