The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century
National Bureau of Economic ResearchPublished 1 May 1999Open access
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz
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Economic inequality in the United States is higher today than at any time in the past sixty years.
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Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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