Organizations, Managers, and Wage Inequality

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 216-222

  Huffman, Matt L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human capital theory; Managers; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873527104     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0240-5     Document Type: Article

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