Education, occupation and career expectations: Determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 819-842

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 36249028629     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2007.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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