Emerging ethnic wage gap: Estonia during political and economic transition

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-619

  Leping, Kristian Olari ^a   Toomet, Ott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Estonia; Ethnicity; Former Soviet Union; Wage decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149110924     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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