A representation index: Measuring the representation of minorities in the income distribution

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Pendakur, Krishna ^a   Pendakur, Ravi ^b   Woodcock, Simon D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Expectile regression; Glass ceiling; Quantile regression; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549089617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1942     Document Type: Article

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