Job Skill and Black Male Wage Discrimination

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 892-906

  Coleman, Major G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0344197554     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0038-4941.2003.08404007.x     Document Type: Review

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