Quality of life ranking of Spanish municipalities;Calidad de vida de ranking de los municipios españoles

Revista de Economia Aplicada

Volumn 19, Issue 56, 2011, Pages 123-148

  González, Eduardo ^a   Cárcaba, Ana ^a   Ventura, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEA; Municipalities; Quality of life; VEA; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053154712     PISSN: 1133455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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