Working late: Do workplace sex ratios affect partnership formation and dissolution?

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 583-595

  Svarer, Michael ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; MALE; SEX RATIO; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34547419036     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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