The economics of diversity: The efficiency vs. equity trade-off

Diversity Management: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-61

  Myers, Samuel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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