Inequality and poverty in Japan

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-27

  Tachibanaki, Toshiaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POVERTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33644759315     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: 14685876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2006.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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