Income, wealth and financial fragility in Europe

Journal of European Social Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-376

  Christelis, Dimitrios ^a   Jappelli, Tullio ^a   Paccagnella, Omar ^b   Weber, Guglielmo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cross national research; Income; SHARE; Wealth

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DEBT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; RETIREMENT; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70350515023     PISSN: 09589287     EISSN: 14617269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350506809341516     Document Type: Article

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