Work-Related Injuries Involving Children and Adolescents: Application of a Recursive Bivariate Probit Model
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Work-Related Injuries Involving Children and Adolescents: Application of a Recursive Bivariate Probit Model*
The probability of working children and adolescents aged between 5 and 17 years experiencing work-related injury was estimated using the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD – Pesquisa Nacional de Amostras por Domićılio) for 2001. Due to the endogenous nature of the “use of personal protective equipment” variable that appears on the right-hand side of the “work-related injury” equation, a rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Review of Econometrics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1980-2447
DOI: 10.12660/bre.v26n12006.2499