Chapter 5 Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

Handbook of Income Distribution

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 261-307

  Gottschalk, Peter ^a   Smeeding, Timothy M ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C81; cross national comparisons; D31; income inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142048286     PISSN: 15740056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0056(00)80008-1     Document Type: Review

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