How wide is the gap? An investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression
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We thank Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Adriana Kugler and seminar participants at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Girona, Universidad de Oviedo, the XII Jornadas de Economía Industrial and the XV Latin American Econometric Society Meeting for suggestions. We are also grateful to the editor of this journal and an anonymous referee for useful comments. Financial support from the Instituto de la Mujer, the FIES and DGES projects PB95-0980 and PB98-1058-C03-01 is gratefully acknowledged. The usual disclaimer applies.
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