Gender, self-employment, and earnings: The interlocking structures of family and professional status

Gender and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 725-753

  Budig, Michelle J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Family; Gender; Occupational class; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750492308     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243206293232     Document Type: Review

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