Measuring welfare changes in behavioural microsimulation modelling: Accounting for the random utility component

Journal of Applied Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-34

  Creedy, John ^a   Hérault, Nicolas ^a   Kalb, Guyonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compensating variation; Equivalent variation; Labour supply modelling; Nonlinear budget constraint; Welfare change measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958811097     PISSN: 15140326     EISSN: 16676726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1514-0326(11)60003-2     Document Type: Article

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