Evidence on Caste Based Discrimination

Labour Economics

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Siddique, Zahra ^a  

^a IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiments; Human resources; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855190660     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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