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This research was financed by grants from the U.S. Educational Foundation/the Netherlands; the Netherlands Economic Institute; The Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California, Los Angeles; and the UCLA Committee on Comparative and International Studies with funding from the Ford Foundation. The authors are indebted to B. Chiswick, Department of Economics, Columbia University, and L. H. Klaassen, Director-President, Netherlands Economic Institute, for helpful comments, and to A. Met for research assistance.

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Burns, L.S., Frech, H.E. Human capital and the size distribution of income in Dutch cities. De Economist 118, 598–618 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02142836

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