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More inequality, less social mobility

Dan Andrews Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Andrew Leigh Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1489-1492 | Published online: 23 Sep 2009

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