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Download full textWilliamson, Jeffrey G. – 1975
This paper discusses American long-term experience with changes in the distribution of income since the turn of the century. It supplies quantitative documentation of a pronunced secular swing in inequality. Inequality indicators were on the rise up to 1914, exhibited no trend to 1926 or 1929, and traced out a well known egalitatian leveling up to…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Economic Research
