Gender differentials in skill use and skill formation in the aftermath of vocational training

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 885-889

  Fahr, Rene ^a,b   Sunde, Uwe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCCUPATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SKILLED LABOR; TRAINING; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 67650227975     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701222137     Document Type: Article

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