Group versus individual discrimination among young workers: A distributional approach

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1856-1879

  Favaro, Donata ^a   Magrini, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Distributional analysis; Gender wage gap; Human capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849143478     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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