Macroeconomic variables and income inequality in New Zealand: An exploration using conditional mixture distributions

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• This research was supported by a University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics and Commerce Research Grant. We are grateful to the editor and three referees for valuable comments on an earlier draft. We should also like to thank Statistics New Zealand for permission to use the Household Expenditure Survey data, and Helen Zarifeh for extracting the data from the basic files.
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