Unemployed, uneducated and sick: The effects of socio-economic status on health duration in the European Union

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

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 939-952

  Cooper, D ^b   McCausland, W D ^b   Theodossiou, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Health duration; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649168411     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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