How does fiscal consolidation impact on income inequality?

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 702-726

  Agnello, Luca ^a,b   Sousa, Ricardo M ^c,d  

^a BANQUE DE FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fiscal consolidation; Income inequality; Kuznets curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920505547     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12004     Document Type: Article

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