Dynamic gender differences in a post-socialist labor market: Russia, 1991-1997

Social Forces

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2047-2075

  Gerber, Theodore P ^a   Mayorova, Olga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 33745947218     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0088     Document Type: Review

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