How do classes make use of their incomes? A test of two hypotheses concerning class and consumption on a Swedish data-set from 1992

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-151

  Bihagen, Erik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0032790084     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006891324905     Document Type: Article

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