Privatization and income change in the Czech Republic: Tensions in the lives of rural and urban employed men

Rural Sociology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 693-717

  Lorenz, Frederick O ^a   Hraba, Joseph ^a   Pechačová, Zdeňka ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; MARKET TRANSITION; PRIVATIZATION; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 0033391675     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00384.x     Document Type: Article

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