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The Macro Model of the Inequality Process and The Surging Relative Frequency of Large Wage Incomes

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Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks

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Revision and extension of a paper, ‘U.S. wage income since 1961: the perceived inequality trend’, presented to the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, March–April 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. On-line at: http://paa2005.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submission ID=50379.

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Angle, J. (2007). The Macro Model of the Inequality Process and The Surging Relative Frequency of Large Wage Incomes. In: Chatterjee, A., Chakrabarti, B.K. (eds) Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0665-2_14

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