Wages, non-wage characteristics, and predominantly male jobs

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-63

  Usui, Emiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensating differentials; Earnings; Job match specific error component; Quits and layoffs; Sex segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649101424     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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