Prejudice and gender differentials in the US labor market in the last twenty years

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 190-200

  Flabbi, Luca ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender discrimination; Maximum likelihood estimation; Search models; Structural estimation

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISCRIMINATION; LABOR MARKETS; SEARCH MODELS; STABLE CONVERGENCE; STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION; WORKER'S PARTICIPATION;

EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950020999     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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