Defining Minimum Income (and Living) Standards in Europe: Methodological Issues and Policy Debates

Social Policy and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 33-48

  Deeming, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europeanisation of social policy; reference budgets; social protection; social research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939554143     PISSN: 14747464     EISSN: 14753073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S147474641500041X     Document Type: Article

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