The declining racial earnings' gap in United States: Multi-level analysis of males' earnings, 1960-2000

Social Science Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-311

  Semyonov, Moshe ^a   Lewin Epstein, Noah ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Earnings inequality; Racial inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649126116     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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