A gender wage gap decomposition for matched employer-employee data

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 611-638

  Korkeamäki, Ossi ^a   Kyyrä, Tomi ^a  

^a Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gender wage gap; Random effects model; Sex segregation; Wage discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748754373     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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