A new view of the male/female pay gap

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 429-464

  Baker, Michael ^a   Drolet, Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earnings; Gender pay gap; Wages

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GENDER ROLE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP;

CANADA;

EID: 78651234248     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.36.4.429     Document Type: Article

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