Social rights of women with children: Lone mothers and poverty in Italy, Germany and Great Britain

South European Society and Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-121

  Ruspini, Elisabetta ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; POVERTY; SINGLE PARENT; WOMENS STATUS;

GERMANY; ITALY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033498085     PISSN: 13608746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13608740408539572     Document Type: Article

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