Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty

FinanzArchiv

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 358-380

  Breyer, Friedrich ^a   Hupfeld, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Life expectancy; Poverty; Redistribution; Social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749121227     PISSN: 00152218     EISSN: 16140974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/001522109X477813     Document Type: Article

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