Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia
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Keywords
Income distribution; Gender discrimination; Namibia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-1998-10-26 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-LTV-1998-10-26 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-PUB-1998-10-26 (Public Finance)
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