European integration and income inequality

American Sociological Review

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 964-985

  Beckfield, Jason ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846692816     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240607100605     Document Type: Article

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