Time spent in paid work by women and men in urban and less urban contexts in the Netherlands

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 585-602

  de Meester, Edith ^a   Mulder, Clara H ^a   Fortuijn, Joos Droogleever ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender inequality; Human capital; Paid work; The Netherlands; Tobit analyses; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249024283     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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