Relational Inequality: Gender Earnings Inequality in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Plants in the Early 1980s.
We examine the relational model of inequality using samples of employer-employee matched data from manufacturing plants in the United States and Japan. We argue that gender is a salient status characteristic in both the United States and Japan, but because of differences in gender politics, wage ine...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 157 - 181 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2012
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