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Richard V. Burkhauser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Stephen E. Rhody, Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany during the Growth Years of the 1980s, International Economic Review, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 775-794
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