In search of smoking guns: What makes income inequality vary over time in different countries?

American Sociological Review

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 585-605

  Gustafsson, Björn ^a   Johansson, Mats ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POVERTY;

EID: 0032735940     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657258     Document Type: Article

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