Which factors safeguard employment?: An analysis with misclassified German register data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-151

  Wichert, Laura ^a   Wilke, Ralf A ^b  

^a DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non classical measurement error; Unemployment risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855937345     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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