Mobility and gender at the top tail of the earnings distribution

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-173

  Finnie, Ross ^a,b   Irvine, Ian ^c  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33749017331     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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