Estimating female labor force participation through statistical and machine learning methods: A comparison

Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance: Volume II

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 93-105

  Zambrano, Omar ^a   Rocco S, Claudio M ^b   Muselli, Marco ^c  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Female Labor Force Participation; Hamming Clustering; Logit; Probit; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887178867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72821-4_5     Document Type: Chapter

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