Exploring gender differences in employment and wage trends among less-skilled workers

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-wage Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-58

  Blank, Rebecca M ^a   Shierholz, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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