The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality

German Economic Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 445-469

  Biewen, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariance structure; Inequality; Mobility; Poverty

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MOBILITY; POVERTY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 28244454749     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00141.x     Document Type: Article

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