Gender wage gap studies: Consistency and decomposition

Empirical Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-76

  Kunze, Astrid ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human capital wage regression model; Male female wage differentials; Model construction and estimation; Wage discrimination

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN CAPITAL; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE GAP;

EID: 50149121570     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0143-4     Document Type: Review

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