Income advantages of communist party members before and during the transformation process

European Societies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-402

  Verhoeven, Willem Jan ^a   Flap, Henk ^b   Dessens, Jos ^b   Jansen, Wim ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CP members; Eastern Europe; Income advantages; Market transformation; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849089746     PISSN: 14616696     EISSN: 14698307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616690701744406     Document Type: Article

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