New estimates of age- and sex-specific earnings and the male-female earnings gap in the British cotton industry, 1833-1906

Economic History Review

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 380-408

  Boot, H M ^a   Maindonald, J H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; AGROINDUSTRY; COTTON; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; WAGE GAP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 41149129372     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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