Pre-Industrial Inequality

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 551, 2011, Pages 255-272

  Milanovic, Branko ^a   Lindert, Peter H ^b   Williamson, Jeffrey G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET;

EID: 79951522848     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02403.x     Document Type: Article

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