How the life-cycle human-capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed

The Declining Significance of Gender?

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 102-124

  Polachek, Solomon W ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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