Women's employment decisions in Malaysia: Does religion matter?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2368-2379

  Amin, Shahina ^a   Alam, Imam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaysia; Religion; Sequential logit; Women; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349095750     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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