The Economic Crisis (2008) and Effects on Income. The Case of Greece

The Economic Crisis (2008) and Effects on Income. The Case of Greece

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2212-5671 © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review will be under responsibility of Department of Accountancy and Finance, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece. doi:10.1016/S2212-5671(15)00005-2

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