From nationally bounded to Pan-European inequalities? On the importance of foreign countries as reference groups

European Sociological Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-140

  Delhey, Jan ^a   Kohler, Ulrich ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

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EID: 33749568993     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: 14682672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jci047     Document Type: Review

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