Affirmative action and empowerment: friends or foes?
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Keywords
affirmative action; women's empowerment; wage-gap;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
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