Introduction and comparative summary

Economic Well-Being of the Elderly: A Comparison Across Five European Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 9-50

  Stanovnik, Tine ^a   Emmerson, Carl ^b   Prinz, Christopher ^c,d   Spéder, Zsolt ^e   Stropnik, Nada ^f   Szulc, Adam ^g  

^a Faculty of Economics   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^c European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research   (Austria)

^d OECD   (France)

^e Office of the Hungarian Republic   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^g WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

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