Class, occupation, wages, and skills: The iron law of labor market inequality

Comparative Social Research

Volumn 30, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-46

  Grand, Carl Le ^a   Tåhlin, Michael ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Class; Efficiency; Power; Skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886605387     PISSN: 01956310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0195-6310(2013)0000030006     Document Type: Article

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