Poverty and income inequality in the early stages of the great recession

The Great Recession

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 82-126

  Smeeding, Timothy M ^a   Thompson, Jeffrey P ^b   Levanon, Asaf ^c   Burak, Esra ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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