Correctly Interpreting the Results from a Log-linear Regression under Heteroskedasticity Methods and an Application to the Relative Wages of Immigrants;Zur korrekten Interpretation der Ergebnisse einer log-linearen Regression bei Heteroskedastie: Eine methodische Untersuchung mit einer Anwendung auf die relativen Löhne von Ausländern

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 418-431

  Winkelmann, Rainer ^a,b  

^a IZA Bonn ^*

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Normal distribution; Relative adjusted wage difference; Retransformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347671199     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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