Major matters: A comparison of the within-major gender pay gap across College majors for early-career graduates

Industrial Relations

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 625-650

  Morgan, Laurie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENDER DISPARITY; HIGHER EDUCATION; WAGE GAP;

EID: 51949085241     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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