Income change and distribution upon widowhood: Comparison of Britain, the United States and Germany

Pensions: Challenges and Reforms

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 211-226

  Holden, Karen ^a   Brand, Jennie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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