Recent two-stage sample selection procedures with an application to the gender wage gap

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 396-405

  Christofides, Louis N ^a   Li, Qi ^b,c   Liu, Zhenjuan ^b   Min, Insik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Labor supply; Selection; Two stage semiparametric estimation; Wage outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043267488     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500103288619043     Document Type: Article

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