An establishment-level test of the statistical discrimination hypothesis

Work and Occupations

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 422-445

  Tomaskovic Devey, Donald ^a   Skaggs, Sheryl ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033216574     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888499026004003     Document Type: Article

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