A cross cultural comparison of pay differentials as a function of rater's sex and Money Ethic endorsement: The Matthew Effect revisited

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 685-697

  Tang, Thomas Li Ping ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b   Davis, Grace Mei Tzu Wu ^c  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matthew Effect; Money Ethic; Pay differentials; Position worth; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288931     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00225-1     Document Type: Article

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