Voting on public pensions with hands and feet

Economics of Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-80

  Haupt, Alexander ^a   Peters, Wolfgang ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gerontocracy; Interregional competition on public pensions; Labor mobility; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342311579     PISSN: 14356104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101010100043     Document Type: Article

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