Output pay and ethnic wage differentials: Canadian evidence

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-194

  Fang, Tony ^a,b,c   Heywood, John S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE GAP;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33644823610     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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