Economic inequality

Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 323-336

  Jordahl, Henrik ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

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