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      Is a widening gender wage gap necessarily caused by a glass ceiling? a case study from Uganda

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            10.13169
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            Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
            Pluto Journals
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            Spring 2012
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            : 1
            : 121-130
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            10.13169/workorgalaboglob.6.1.0121
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            © Irene van Staveran, 2012

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            Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

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