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Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990's

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  • LONGFORD Nicholas Tibor
  • PITTAU Maria Grazia

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This paper explores the patterns of change in the annual household income in the countries of the European Community during the years 1994-1999. The income is modelled by mixtures of multivariate log-normal distributions, and the mixture components are in

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  • LONGFORD Nicholas Tibor & PITTAU Maria Grazia, 2003. "Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990's," IRISS Working Paper Series 2003-08, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD.
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