Using copulas to model switching regimes with an application to child labour

Economic Record

Volumn 81, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Smith, Murray D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; ECONOMETRICS; INCOME; MODELING;

EID: 33845518301     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2005.00246.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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