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Comparative Analysis of Hedonic Wage and Discrete Choice Models in Valuing Job Safety

By: Nan ZhangORCID  
Open Access
|Jan 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ceej-2025-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2543-6821 | Journal ISSN: 2544-9001
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 16
Published on: Jan 7, 2025
Published by: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
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