Minimum wages and the gender wage gap

Applied Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1567-1576

  Shannon, Michael ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARNINGS IMPACT; GENDER INEQUALITY; MINIMUM WAGE;

CANADA;

EID: 0030436471     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368496327543     Document Type: Article

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