Public-private wage differential and gender gap in Latin America: Spoiled bureaucrats and exploited women?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 810-833

  Panizza, Ugo ^a   Qiang, Christine Zhen Wei ^b  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender wage gap; Public sector labor market

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744469749     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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