The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in Greece
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Keywords
Gender wage gap; subject of degree; educational choices; returns; risk; Greece;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
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2009-04-18 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2009-04-18 (Labour Economics)
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