Using matched employer-employee data to study labor market discrimination

Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 29-60

  Hellerstein, Judith K ^a   Neumark, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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