Childbearing and (female) research productivity: a personnel economics perspective on the leaky pipeline

Journal of Business Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 517-530

  Joecks, Jasmin ^a   Pull, Kerstin ^a   Backes Gellner, Uschi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Childbearing; Research productivity; Resources; Self selection; Women in academia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930591887     PISSN: 00442372     EISSN: 18618928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11573-013-0676-2     Document Type: Article

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