A cross-national look at married women's earnings dependency

Gender Issues

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 3-33

  Bianchi, Suzanne M ^a   Casper, Lynne M ^b   Peltola, Pia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Statistician and Demographer   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR FORCE; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; NUPTIALITY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDIES;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR FORCE; MARRIAGE; NUPTIALITY; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDIES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH MANPOWER; INCOME; MARRIAGE; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033139405     PISSN: 1098092X     EISSN: 19364717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12147-999-0001-0     Document Type: Article

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