Delgado, Miguel A.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 79 (1997) 1, pp. 41-49
We examine an econometric model of counts of worker absences due to illness in a sluggishly adjusting hedonic labor market. We compare three estimators that parameterize the conditional variance--least squares, Poisson, and negative binomial pseudo maximum likelihood--to generalized least...