A more general and unified measure for valuing labour market risk

Applied Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 537-542

  Dillingham, Alan E ^a   Miller, Ted ^b   Levy, David T ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Public Services Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOUR MARKET; MARKET RISK; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; WAGE PREMIUM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 0029795355     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036849600000032     Document Type: Article

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