Establishment-level wage effects of entering motherhood

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 61, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages

  Beblo, Miriam ^a   Bender, Stefan ^b   Wolf, Elke ^c  

^a BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^c MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR PARTICIPATION; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 65449145149     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpn040     Document Type: Article

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