The glass ceiling in Europe: Why are women doing badly in the labour market?

Swedish Economic Policy Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-144

  Booth, Alison L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CEPR and IZA ^*

Author keywords

Discrimination; Gender; Glass ceilings; Quantile regression decompositions; Sticky floors

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449104812     PISSN: 14001829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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