The Effects of Women’s Labor Force Participation: An Explanation of Changes in Household Income Inequality.
Some previous studies of the relationship between women's labor force participation and household income inequality indicate that the promotion of the former has an equalizing effect on the latter; other studies insist that the promotion of women's labor force participation has a widening effect on...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1427 - 1450 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2017
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