Female-led firms and gender wage policies

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-163

  Cardoso, Ana Rute ^a,b   Winter Ebmer, Rudolf ^b,c  

^a Barcelona)   (Spain)

^b IZA   (Spain)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Female entrepreneurs; Gender gap; Matched employer employee data; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957602497     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391006400107     Document Type: Article

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