What determines subjective socio-economic insecurity? Context and class in comparative perspective

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 655-682

  Mau, Steffen ^a   Mewes, Jan ^a   Schöneck, Nadine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C31 cross sectional models; Economic anthropology; Globalization; I30 welfare and poverty general; Labor market protection; Quantile regressions; Social and economic stratification; Social interaction models; Social security; Socio economic insecurity; Spatial models; Treatment effect models; Z13 economic sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866757360     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mws001     Document Type: Article

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