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Authors

Amanda Gosling

Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

Stephen Machin
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.1994.9413
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
A, Gosling and S, Machin and C, Meghir. (1994). The changing distribution of male wages in the UK. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/changing-distribution-male-wages-uk (accessed: 15 March 2025).
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