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Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US: 1969–1987’

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Jenkins, S.P., Lambert, P.J. Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US: 1969–1987’. J Econ Inequal 9, 433–437 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9156-x

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