Up the down staircase: Women's upward mobility and the wage penalty for occupational feminization, 1970-2007

Social Forces

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1183-1206

  Mandel, Hadas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84878480354     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sot018     Document Type: Article

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