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Research Article

Explaining the poverty difference between the US and the UK: a Shapley income-distribution decomposition approach

Zuobao Wanga School of Humanities and Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jing Sunb School of Business, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou, ChinaView further author information
Pages 1438-1441 | Published online: 04 Nov 2019

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