Long-run inequality and short-run instability of men's and women's earnings in Canada

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 572-596

  Beach, Charles M ^a   Finnie, Ross ^b   Gray, David ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 77955765832     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2010.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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