Reinterpreting between-group inequality

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-245

  Elbers, Chris ^a,b   Lanjouw, Peter ^c   Mistiaen, Johan A ^c   Özler, Berk ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality decompositions

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749093652     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-007-9064-x     Document Type: Article

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