Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis

Economic Record

Volumn 86, Issue 273, 2010, Pages 227-246

  Barón, Juan D ^a,b   Cobb Clark, Deborah A ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Colombia)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ROLE; OCCUPATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; WAGE GAP;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953596707     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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