Are female workers less productive than male workers?

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-37

  Petersen, Trond ^a,b   Snartland, Vemund ^a   Milgrom, Eva M Meyersson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Matched employer employee data; Piece and time rate contracts; Productivity; Sex and Productivity; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846829324     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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