People skills and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups

ILR Review

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 287-334

  Borghans, Lex ^a   Weel, Bas Ter ^b   Weinberg, Bruce A ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Ethnicity; Gender; Interpersonal interactions; Race; Wage level and structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898642076     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: 2162271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391406700202     Document Type: Review

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