The accuracy of predicted wages of the non-employed and implications for policy simulations from structural labour supply models

Economic Record

Volumn 86, Issue 272, 2010, Pages 49-70

  Breunig, Robert ^a   Mercante, Joseph ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Treasury   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR POLICY; LABOR SUPPLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PREDICTION; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE DETERMINATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77950147928     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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