Estimating low pay transition probabilities accounting for endogenous selection mechanisms

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-186

  Cappellari, Lorenzo ^a,b   Jenkins, Stephen P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attrition; Ignorability; Low pay; Non response; Panel data; Panel dropout

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449110921     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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