Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Hansen, Jörgen ^a,c   Wahlberg, Roger ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distribution of wage gap; Endogenous schooling; Panel data; Return to education; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE GAP;

EID: 17444432620     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-004-0218-4     Document Type: Article

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