Sexual minorities, earnings, and career development: Insights from economics

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-94

  Van Loo, Jasper B ^b   Rocco, Tonette S ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Economics; Human capital theory; Sexual minorities; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849114564     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: 15523055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422308329372     Document Type: Article

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