Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 754-773

  Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar ^a   Gang, Ira N ^b   Yun, Myeong Su ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Decomposition; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750994621     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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