Gender wage differentials by education in Italy

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 4589-4605

  Addabbo, Tindara ^a,b   Favaro, Donata ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Centre for Household Income Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD)   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ISSUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE GAP;

ITALY;

EID: 80051776624     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.491475     Document Type: Article

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