Income inequality and redistributive government spending

Public Finance Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 282-305

  De Mello, Luiz ^a,c   Tiongson, Erwin R ^a,b  

^a OECD ^*

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Imperfect markets; Inequality; Redistribution; Tobit estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745188251     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142105284894     Document Type: Review

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