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On the Modeling of the Income Distribution Business Cycle Dynamics

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Empirically, the income share is procyclical for the low-income groups and acyclical for the top 5%. We find that business cycle models should consider overlapping generations and elastic labor supply in order to replicate this finding.income distribution, business cycle, overlapping generations

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Last time updated on 06/07/2012

This paper was published in Research Papers in Economics.

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