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Earnings Inequality and High Earners: Changes During and after the Stock Market Boom of the 1990s: Working Paper 2006-06

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Jonathan A. Schwabish Studies of earnings trends and earnings distributions are often hampered by public-use data sets that either do not adequately survey high earners or topcode high earnings. This paper uses the Social Security Administration’s Continuous Work History Sample (CWHS) and the March Current Population Survey (CPS) to analyze trends in earnings inequality during the 1990s and early 2000s, and to assess where significant differences may exist in the two data sets. The CWHS is used to track the changes in the share of earnings received by

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  • Jonathan A. Schwabish, 2006. "Earnings Inequality and High Earners: Changes During and after the Stock Market Boom of the 1990s: Working Paper 2006-06," Working Papers 17738, Congressional Budget Office.
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