Poverty in Germany - Statistical inference and decomposition

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 178-209

  Bönke, Timm ^a   Schröder, Carsten ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Equivalence scale; Oaxaca Blinder decomposition; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955770939     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2011-0202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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