Is there a generational cleavage in Europe?: Age-specific perceptions of elderly care and of the pension system

Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 73-99

  Keck, Wolfgang ^a   Blome, Agnes ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

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EID: 85144939020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936306-12     Document Type: Chapter

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