Labor Economics
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078021886
Author: George J Borjas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 8RQ
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The implications of regression toward the mean for the changing shape of the wage distribution across generations.
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