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Davis, Steven J. - 1995

We combine information from several different studies and data sets to assemble a fuller, more accurate picture of job flows and worker flows in U.S. labor markets. Our picture characterizes the magnitudes of job and worker flows, the connections between them, their cyclical behavior,...

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Improving the Accuracy of Economic Measurement with Multiple Data Sources : The Case of Payroll Employment Data

Cajner, Tomaz - 2019

-time measurement of the labor market. The sources are the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from BLS and microdata from the payroll …-sized samples. We argue that combining CES and ADP data series reduces the measurement error inherent in both data sources. In …

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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias : Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Krueger, Alan - 2014

This paper documents that rotation group bias -- the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys -- in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has...

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Do Markets Respond More to More Reliable Labor Market Data? A Test of Market Rationality

Krueger, Alan B. - 1996

Since 1979, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has nearly quadrupled the size of the sample used to estimate monthly employment changes. Although first-reported employment estimates are still noisy, the magnitude of sampling variability has declined in proportion to the increase in the sample...

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A Unified Approach to Measuring u*

Crump, Richard K. - 2019

This paper bridges the gap between two popular approaches to estimating the natural rate of unemployment, u*. The first approach uses detailed labor market indicators such as labor market flows, cross-sectional data on unemployment and vacancies, or various measures of demographic changes. The...

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....

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Hard-to-measure goods and services : essays in honor of Zvi Griliches

Berndt, Ernst R. (contributor); Griliches, Zvi (honouree); … - 2007

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What do we Really Know about Food Security?

Cafiero, Carlo - 2013

Many discussions following the 2007/08 food price crisis have revolved around the magnitude of the negative impacts that it may have had on food security worldwide. Analysts have been asked to provide timely assessments, often based on partial data and information. The variety of opinions and...

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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010

Attanasio, Orazio - 2012

In this paper, we use a variety of different techniques to overcome the measurement error problems with the CE. First …, we use data from the diary component of the CE, focusing on categories where measurement error has been found to be less … component that is considered to be measured well. Third, we try to account directly for the non-classical measurement error of …

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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...

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