Reference groups and individual deprivation

Economics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 421-426

  Bossert, Walter ^a   D'Ambrosio, Conchita ^b,c  

^a Canada H3A 2T7   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Equity; Income distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344471164     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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