Colour my world: Have earnings gaps for Canadian-born ethnic minorities changed over time?

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-512

  Pendakur, Krishna ^a   Pendakur, Ravi ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Canadian Heritage   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAGE GAP;

CANADA;

EID: 0036970489     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3552211     Document Type: Article

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