Chapter 18 Demographic variables and income inequality

Handbook of Population and Family Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 1997, Pages 1015-1059

  Lam, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 77956759009     PISSN: 1574003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80010-4     Document Type: Review

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