Estimating the inequality of household incomes: A statistical approach to the creation of a dense and consistent global data set

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-143

  Galbraith, James K ^a   Kum, Hyunsub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 27744595802     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2005.00147.x     Document Type: Review

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