Rhetoric in economic research: The case of gender wage differentials

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 416-436

  Weichselbaumer, Doris ^a,b   Winter Ebmer, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENDER ISSUE; INCOME; WAGE GAP;

EID: 33745199412     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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