How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?

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How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy? / Settele, Sonja.

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Publikation: Working paper › Forskning

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Settele, S 2019 'How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?'. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3490663

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Settele, S. (2019). How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy? CEBI Working Paper Series Nr. 13/19 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3490663

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Settele S. How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy? 2019 dec. 6. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3490663

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Settele, Sonja. / How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?. 2019. (CEBI Working Paper Series; Nr. 13/19).

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