Who supports redistribution?

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-354

  Ohtake, Fumio ^a   Tomioka, Jun ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Center for Economic Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WAGE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 11244251957     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2004.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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