Income dynamics in couples and the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation

Demography

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-179

  Kalmijn, Matthijs ^a,b   Loeve, Anneke ^c   Manting, Dorien ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Statistics Netherlands ^*  (Netherlands)

^c STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34248596547     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2007.0005     Document Type: Article

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