Modelling income processes with lots of heterogeneity

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1353-1381

  Browning, Martin ^a   Ejrnæs, Mette ^b   Alvarez, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BANCO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MODEL TEST; PANEL DATA; PARAMETERIZATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 77955739999     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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