Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: How to measure them properly

Public Finance Review

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 563-587

  Urban, Ivica ^a   Lambert, Peter J ^b  

^a Institute of Public Finance Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal inequity; Redistributive effect; Reranking; Vertical equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 49149105915     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142107308295     Document Type: Article

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