Decomposing the male/female wage gap: Within and between establishment differences

Labour

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 339-356

  Barth, Erling ^a   Mastekaasa, Arne ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GENDER DISPARITY; WAGE GAP;

NORWAY;

EID: 0030437870     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.1996.tb00088.x     Document Type: Article

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