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The effect of parental background along the sons’ earnings distribution: does one pattern fit for all?

Michele RaitanoDepartment of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Claudia VittoriDepartment of Social and Policy Sciences and Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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Francesco VonaOFCE SciencesPo and SKEMA Business School, Nice, France
Pages 1073-1078 | Published online: 20 Jan 2016

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