Distributional changes in the gender wage gap

ILR Review

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 335-361

  Kassenboehmer, Sonja C ^a   Sinning, Mathias G ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decomposition analysis; Gender wage gap; Unconditional quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898665663     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: 2162271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391406700203     Document Type: Review

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