Volume 41 - Article 15 | Pages 425–460
Is the age difference between partners related to women's earnings?
By Angela Carollo, Anna Oksuzyan, Sven Drefahl, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt, Kaare Christensen, Alyson van Raalte
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