Risks at work: The demand and supply sides of government redistribution

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-389

  Cusack, Thomas ^a   Iversen, Torben ^b   Rehm, Philipp ^a,c  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; RISK; TIME SERIES;

EID: 33750349890     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grj022     Document Type: Article

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