The association between husbands' and wives' labor market positions in the Netherlands

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-276

  Verbakel, Ellen ^a   Luijkx, Ruud ^a   de Graaf, Paul M ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Households; Inequality; Occupational homogamy; Partner effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749118567     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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