Blind Ambition? The effects of social networks and institutional sex composition on the job search outcomes of elite coeducational and women's college graduates

Organization Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-150

  Belliveau, Maura A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Gender; Gender wage gap; Social comparison; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944403192     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0119     Document Type: Article

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