Getting hired: Sex and race

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 416-443

  Petersen, Trond ^a   Saporta, Ishak ^b   Seidel, Marc David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER ROLE; RACE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22244471081     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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