Self/paid-employment, public/private sector selection, and wage differentials

Labour Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 737-762

  Christofides, Louis N ^a,b   Pashardes, Panos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Country institutions; Public private sector; Selection; Self paid employment; Wage decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036888181     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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