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Wage Discrimination Measurement: In Defense of a Simple But Informative Statistical Tool

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Le Breton, Michel
Michelangeli, Alessandra
Peluso, Eugenio

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
C16 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Econometric and Statistical Methods; Specific Distributions

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