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The Gender Wage Gap in Switzerland over Time

Swiss Journal of Sociology
Volume 42 (2016): Issue 3 (November 2016)
By: Flurina Schmid  
Open Access
|Nov 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2016-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2297-8348
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Language: English
Page range: 442 - 467
Published on: Nov 16, 2016
Published by: Sciendo
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Keywords:
Gender discrimination,
human capital,
occupational gender segregation,
part-time,
wage gap
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Sociology,
Sociological theory,
Methods, techniques, statistics,
Social structures, social interaction, population, social anthropology,
Sociology, other

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