Sources of gender wage gap in different economic sectors: The Israeli case

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1019-1022

  Shahrabani, Shosh ^a  

^a The Max Stern Academic   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN CAPITAL; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 36048984173     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600706602     Document Type: Article

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