Two sides to every story: Measuring polarization and inequality in the distribution of work

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 857-875

  Gregg, Paul ^b,c   Wadsworth, Jonathan ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution of work; Inequality; Joblessness; Polarization; Workless households

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649092441     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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