Estimating the effect of personality on male and female earnings

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-22

  Mueller, Gerrit ^a,b   Plug, Erik ^c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 37849189255     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979390606000101     Document Type: Article

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