The impact of cognitive skills on the distribution of the black-white wage gap

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-356

  O'Neill, Donal ^a   Sweetman, Olive ^a   Van de Gaer, Dirk ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Black white wage gap; Semi parametric estimation; Wage Distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645552494     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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