Male-female urban income distributions in Canada: The service sector in a dependency model

Urban Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-574

  Soroka, Lewis A ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SERVICE SECTOR; URBAN ECONOMY;

CANADA;

EID: 0032999997     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098993538     Document Type: Article

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