Community college enrollment, college major, and the gender wage gap.
The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This paper looks specifically at the role played by the dramatic relative increase in women's enrollment in two-year colleg...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 163 - 182 |
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Cornell University
October 2000
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