Including mechanisms in our models of ascriptive inequality

American Sociological Review

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Reskin, Barbara F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; EQUITY; GENDER DISPARITY; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 0037306021     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088900     Document Type: Article

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