Do US employers discriminate against females when hiring their employees?

Applied Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1471-1482

  Mohanty, Madhu S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition analysis; Labor market; Unemployment; United States; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE GAP;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032457093     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368498324814     Document Type: Article

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