Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 431-457

  Kraus, Margit ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

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EID: 4544256569     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0034-6586.2004.00133.x     Document Type: Review

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