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Eastern Economic Journal (2007) 33,301–316. doi:10.1057/eej.2007.27

Investigating Dual Labor Markettheory for Women

Christine Siegwarth Meyer and Swati Mukerjee

  1. 1NERA Economic Consulting
  2. 2Bentley College

Correspondence: Swati Mukerjee, Department of Economics, Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452 E-mail: www.smukerjee@bentley.edu.

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