He said, she said: The gender wage gap according to self and proxy reports in the Current Population Survey

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 392-411

  Reynolds, Jeremy ^a   Wenger, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender wage decompositions; Proxy response; Response bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856361669     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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