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Flexible Work and Gender

Flexible time – but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages: a test of the mother-friendly job hypothesis in Sweden

Pages 291-314 | Received 17 Aug 2018, Accepted 05 Nov 2019, Published online: 12 Dec 2019

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