Income Polarization in the United States /

The paper uses a combination of micro-level datasets to document the rise of income polarization-what some have referred to as the 'hollowing out' of the income distribution-in the United States, since the 1970s. While in the initial decades more middle-income households moved up, rather t...

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1. Verfasser: Alichi, Ali
Weitere Verfasser: Kantenga, Kory, Sole, Juan
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/121
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF