Fifty Years Of Growth In American Consumption, Income, And Wages
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JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2017-04-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2017-04-23 (Macroeconomics)
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