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November 2000

Income distribution of older Americans

Rose M. Rubin, Shelley I. White-Means, Luojia Mao Daniel

Although remaining concentrated in lower income groups, elderly households achieved significantly greater equality of income distribution between 1967 and 1997; the gap with the income distribution of nonelderly households narrowed

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