Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Labour Economics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-40

  Azmat, Ghazala ^a,b   Petrongolo, Barbara ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiments; Gender; Gender preferences; Lab experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908606829     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

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