A machine learning approach to improving occupational income scores
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Keywords
OCCSCORE; Occupational income score; LIDO Score; Machine learning; Lasso; Non-classical measurement error; Occupation; Earnings gaps;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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