Inequality through labor markets, firms, and families: The intersection of gender and race-ethnicity across three cities

Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 372-406

  Browne, Irene ^a   Tigges, Leann ^b   Press, Julie ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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