The motherhood wage gap: What about job amenities?

Labour Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-67

  Felfe, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compensating wage differentials; Motherhood wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455191863     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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