Monopsonistic discrimination, worker turnover, and the gender wage gap

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 589-597

  Barth, Erling ^a   Dale Olsen, Harald ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gender wage gap; Monopsony

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749099438     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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