Relative earnings of husbands and wives in urban China

China Economic Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 412-431

  LI, Hongbin ^a   ZHANG, Junsen ^a   SIN, Lai Ting ^a   ZHAO, Yaohui ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Earnings gap; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750957792     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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