Gender gap in wage returns to job tenure and experience

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1296-1316

  Munasinghe, Lalith ^b   Reif, Tania ^a   Henriques, Alice ^b  

^a CITIGROUP   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender Wage Gap; Returns to Experience; Returns to Tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349098828     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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