A cross-national comparison of permanent inequality in the United States and Germany

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 10-17

  Burkhauser, Richard V ^a   Poupore, John G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCOME INEQUALITY; INEQUALITY PATTERN; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON;

GERMANY; USA;

EID: 0030759813     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465397750160158     Document Type: Article

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