Begging the Question: Permanent Income and Social Mobility
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inequality; Social Programmes; Social welfare;All these keywords.
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- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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