Recent trends in the UK income distribution: What happened and why?

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-46

  Jenkins, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002270329     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/12.1.29     Document Type: Article

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