Public-private employment choice, wage differentials, and gender in Turkey

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 453-477

  Tansel, Aysit ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 14644420895     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425374     Document Type: Article

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