Pay differences among the highly trained: Cohort differences in the sex gap in lawyers' earnings

Social Forces

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 853-872

  Noonan, Mary C ^a,c   Corcoran, Mary E ^b   Courant, Paul N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

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EID: 30744470880     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0021     Document Type: Review

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