Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 633-686

  Card, David ^a   Cardoso, Ana Rute ^b   Kline, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BARCELONA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; GENDER DISPARITY; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84979085093     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjv038     Document Type: Article

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