The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-schedule Flexibility
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and WorkSchedule Flexibility Author(s): Deborah J. Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate Krause Source: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, (Jan., 2003), pp. 273-294 Published by: Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3590938 Accessed: 14/08/2008 20:25
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