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The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation
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The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation
The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation
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Paula England
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1 January 1982
journal article
Published by
JSTOR
in
The Journal of Human Resources
Vol. 17
(3)
,
358
https://doi.org/10.2307/145585
Abstract
Predictions from Polachek's theory explaining occupational sex segregation are tested and found to be false. The NLS data do not show that women are penaliz...
Keywords
NLS
HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY
FALSE
THEORY EXPLAINING
FAILURE OF HUMAN
PENALIZ
POLACHEK'S
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