Gender wage discrimination in the turkish labor market: Can turkey be part of Europe

Comparative Economic Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-463

  Cudeville, Elisabeth ^a   Gurbuzer, Leman Yonca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

discrimination; gender wage gap decompositions; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955799741     PISSN: 08887233     EISSN: 14783320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ces.2010.2     Document Type: Article

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