Estimated hedonic wage function and value of life in a developing country

Economics Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 353-358

  Liu, Jin Tan ^a   Hammitt, James K ^a   Liu, Jin Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compensating wage differentials; Value of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031578599     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00238-3     Document Type: Article

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