Changing levels or changing slopes? The narrowing of the gender earnings GAP 1959 - 1999

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 384-406

  Weinberger, Catherine J ^a   Kuhn, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 77951068539     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391006300302     Document Type: Article

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