Relative income and attitudes towards long-term care financing

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 673-693

  Costa Font, Joan ^a   Garcia Gonzalez, Anna ^b   Font Vilalta, Montserrat ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Long term care financing; Relative income; State responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549086165     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2008.32     Document Type: Article

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