Minority earnings disparity across the distribution

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-61

  Pendakur, Krishna ^a   Pendakur, Ravi ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Discrimination; Earnings disparity; Ethnic minorities; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; ETHNIC MINORITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE GAP;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249097044     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.v33.1.041     Document Type: Article

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