Persistence and change in age-specific gender gaps: Hollywood actors from the silent era onward
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Gender gap; Age discrimination; Labor market; Actors; Films; Motion pictures;All these keywords.
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- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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