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A monetary history of the United States : 1867-1960

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Wage Mobility in the United States

Buchinsky, Moshe - 1996

This paper examines the mobility of individuals through the wage and earnings distributions. This is of extreme importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the United States over the last few decades. The measures...

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Are Immigrants the Best and Brightest U.S. Engineers?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2013

Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...

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The great contraction, 1929 - 1933

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