Gender composition effects in the Netherlands: A multilevel analysis of occupational wage inequality

Social Science Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 312-334

  de Ruijter, Judith M P ^a   Huffman, Matt L ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Occupational segregation; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037843251     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0049-089X(02)00061-3     Document Type: Article

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