Incidence and intensity of smoothed income poverty in European countries

Journal of European Social Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-369

  Kuchler, Birgit ^a   Goebel, Jan ^b  

^a Federal Statistical Office   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ECHP; Panel data; Poverty; Smoothed income

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; PANEL DATA; POVERTY; REGIONAL PATTERN;

EUROPE;

EID: 0345415630     PISSN: 09589287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/09589287030134003     Document Type: Article

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