Why do women in former communist countries look unhappy? A demographic perspective
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2009-032
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Keywords
Europe; economic and social development; life expectancy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
- Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2009-11-21 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LAB-2009-11-21 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2009-11-21 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-TRA-2009-11-21 (Transition Economics)
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