Family income at the bottom and at the top: Income sources and family characteristics

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-309

  Raffalovich, Lawrence E ^a   Monnat, Shannon M ^b   Tsao, Hui shien ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Family characteristics; Income distribution; Income quantiles; Income: Family income; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649093625     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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