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" Income inequality and poverty in Eastern and Western Europa "
Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (eds.).
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BL
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749264
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b569222
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Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (eds.).
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Income inequality and poverty in Eastern and Western Europa\ Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (eds.).
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Heidelberg : Physica, 1997
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Contributions to economics.
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(x, 253 pages) : illustrations
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364250003X
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: 9783642500039
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Income inequality and poverty in eastern and western Europe / Notburga Ott and Gert G. Wagner --; Competitive or cooperative welfare policies in Europe / Georg Meran and Aloys Prinz --; The main problems of international comparative poverty research / Richard Hauser --; Working poor : "inequitable" wages in Germany and in Europe! : higher minimum wages as an instrument of justice? / Claus Schäfer --; Measurement of poverty : examplified by the German case / Erik J.S. Plug [and others] --; Poverty and social security transfers : results for seven countries and regions in the EC / Karel van den Bosch, Lieve De Lathouwer and Herman Deleeck --; Old age poverty in selected countries of the European Union : are women disproportionally affected? / Heinz Stapf --; Changes in the rate and types of poverty : the Czech and Slovak Republics 1990-1993 / Jiri Veçernik --; Social inequality and poverty in Russia / Alexander Surinov and Igor Kolosnitsyn.
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The main purpose of the book is the analysis of income inequality and poverty in a comparative context. The book contains articles on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia under transition. Western European countries which are under consideration are: Belgium, Catalonia, France, Germany (East and West), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom. Objective as well as subjective approaches for measurement of poverty are used. The book gives references to public use files which could be used for own research of readers.
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Income distribution -- Europe, Eastern.
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Income distribution -- Europe.
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Poverty -- Europe.
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HC240.Z9N683 1997
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Gert Wagner
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Notburga Ott
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