Panel estimates of the Canadian rural/urban women's wage gap

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1138-1151

  Vera Toscano, Esperanza ^a   Phimister, Euan ^b   Weersink, Alfons ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Female wage gap; Rural labor markets; Sample selection; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7544220913     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0002-9092.2004.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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